The Villain's Savior
Read ch 87 as of 30/04/21 - rate 3.5 so far, translation off. Some plot details missing, ending too rushed. - ML tragic childhood, abusive father, family lost in house fire, sold himself on streets, adopted by noble Gracias Randall whom he killed after years of sadistic abuse and torture by her. He sells his soul for a false crest and is denounced as a devil and killed by Crown Prince Alchester (Alceste), crest partner / soulmate of Elisa (ML 1st love) - Having felt deep compassion for ML and after crying intensely over his death, FL is reborn as Elljae (Elzay / Zay), 19yo twin sister of Elisa, with the purpose of saving the ML from his tragic fate. A green crest appears on FL’s chest, but no sign of the same crest on Azef (Aseph) is reported by her father. - NB: Their father Aizen Thyase (Eisen Tiathe) behind burning of ML’s childhood home. - 1st meeting of FL and ML is in her garden. She cries upon seeing him and says he’s a good person, despite the lies he tells. - After having a nightmare (in future she has more), FL rushes to see ML on 4th anniversary of his adopted mother’s death to stop him from going on a killing spree. Elisa comes to fetch FL and the wrong sparks fly between Elisa and ML. - 3rd meeting ML surprises FL at home. Takes her to see a view of the night sky. Rather than kissing him, she bursts into tears. FL is conflicted and thinks helping ML from afar and distancing herself is the best way. - 4th meeting: FL visits ML to return coat. ML takes her for a ride and secretly poisons the horse. He strips to reveal his multiple scars and FL is shocked into tears while vowing she won’t let him get hurt anymore. FL’s crest glows brightly and heals ML completely incl all scars. FL faints and can’t remember this, ML thinks it’s her holy power. - ML now more possessive and obsessed w/ FL. She in turn admits to herself that she’ll never leave him and will do anything he asks. - ML asked FL to be partners at the Cordis (Cordesse), ie horse riding competition, which they win and so ML asks Emperor to allow Crown Prince to return from exile (driven away at 5yo). - FL seal / crest sickness starts just before ball. - At the ball ML publicly declares his love for FL, but FL denies her love for ML due to her fears that they’re not fated partners. They share their 1st kisses, ML stabs himself then FL finally shouts out she has crest to ML. - ML and FL confirm their feelings for each other at last, and emphatically do so before her father and sister (Ch 41 Season 1) - FL father visits ML and FL to confirm he received and approves the official marriage proposal. He supports their happiness rather than forcing them apart. - ML shows captured prisoner to FL father (a mage who’s sold his soul to the devil) - a Mark (Crest) Hunter clone targets FL but is dispelled by ML w/ his ability to use mana suddenly awakened. - Crown Prince arrives in pursuit of the Mark (Crest) Hunter. He has strong mana (Mana of Light) and purification ability. - Elisa meets Crown Prince on way to see FL and they both have the same crests (they appeared shortly after the other). Crown Prince submits marriage proposal to the father straightaway. - FL dreamt of herself as a child spotting ML w/ his birth mother Sofia in the street, asking her for a cotton blanket. - FL father reveals to Crown Prince and ML that the Emperor was behind the murder of ML’s family 16yrs ago. Father knew ML’s mother and had her followed but arrived at her home too late to save her. Set fire to house and let boy run off to save him at his mother’s request. Emperor had held the twins captive then by poisoning them w/ Anisha root. - ML is shocked to hear this story and thankful to know someone, the FL, was trying to save him back then. - 3yo FL asked father to save 5yo ML. Her aptitude for resonance had awakened early and she foresaw his tragic future in her dreams. This became a neverending circle where FL always chose to change ML’s fate. - (asleep for 3 days) FL dreams of Goddess Premetsa who offers to send her back to her previous life to spare herself the pain and torment from sacrificing herself for ML’s sake. FL declines, preferring to always stay by ML’s side. - ML and FL have a picnic which she makes (she’s a terrible cook). Crown Prince and Elisa crash. - ML and FL, Elisa and Alcester: on their way to capital, their carriages were attacked by cursed mages (demons) led by a possessed Prince Ludwig who exchanged his soul for a dark power to fight against the Crown Prince. - Silver haired twins Angela and Hugh join the group. Large number of people w/ crests murdered in the capital. Referred to as “crest hunting”. - ML’s plan has spreading rumour of Elisa poisoned? - Emperor Aiden made contract w/ devil Zikelion years ago. He coveted Silvia who shared the same crest w/ her childhood friend. He killed the friend on false charges and forced Silvia to be his. She gave birth to the Crown Prince but Emperor killed her as he could never have her heart.
Setting Sun, Dazzled Eyes
Ch 90 as of 16/08/22 ** Also on Tappytoon as “The Spark in Your Eyes” ** some bad translation ** ch 39 and ch 80 (?) missing - The southern kingdom under King Mormodes conquered the North several years ago, largely due to the Sun Witch / Knight, Hildegar Ailius. Her true identity and face were kept hidden. - FL is the Sun Witch, a powerful mage and knight with the ability to heal. She retired a few mths ago and is living in seclusion away from her many enemies. Just before retiring, she started to suffer from a mysterious illness or curse that has steadily worsened. - ML is Elkin, a Northerner pharmacist employed by the family-run Lindemann General Store. - Anetta is another employee at the store. Her sister Griselda Elba is a royal knight from the elite Emric order who serves FL. - ML is approached by royal knights to prescribe a remedy for a noble whose identity must remain secret. His is the only one that proves effective and he is eventually invited to stay in the castle as it’s resident doctor and pharmacist. - Anetta will act as middleman for the procurement and delivery of any special drugs and herbs needed for FL’s treatment. - After bumping into ML by accident at the castle, FL uses the alias “Kaia.” She pretends to be a new servant and lady-in-waiting. - Only FL’s personal knight Griselda and lady-in-waiting Heisey know her face and true identity. - FL recognises ML’s face from somewhere but is unable to recall who he reminds her of exactly. - The King keeps trying to spy on FL and manipulate her from afar. FL uncovers the chef as his spy and tells him to flee. - Sir Therion Weidhen, a young novice knight is sent as a spy by his uncle Commander Albrecht of the royal knights to obtain any info on FL’s identity and illness. - FL disappeared 8yrs ago during the war at the Northern border. - FL was possibly responsible for the death of ML’s parents at that time when they were tending to the injured on the battlefield. ML is keen to find her and seek his vengeance with her alone. - While helping put out a fire in a nearby village, FL overhears ML talking about his parents and that the Sun Witch was to blame for their deaths. She keeps this to herself so she can look into it more. - The anniversary of a key battle lost in the war brings forth tragic memories from that time, especially for FL, Griselda and Therion. - FL and ML help an old woman who turns out to be the mother of a close knight of FL who died in the war. The old woman warns FL to beware ML as he seems to have deep wrath in his heart. FL starts avoiding ML from then on. - A petty thief seems to be at large in the castle. The medicine list for FL might be the true goal. Griselda suspects Therion. - FL finds out the intruder is a stray cat who was stealing random items. She decides to adopt it and names it White Feet. - ML asks FL why is she avoiding him. She says it’s because she became confused when she was with him. She knows he’ll treat her very differently if he knew who she really was. - Heisey discovers Therion in ML’s room. He was looking for the medicine list. Heisey tells him about FL during the war and how she came to the rescue of the small castle Heisey called home. She is completely loyal to FL who is her saviour. She warns Therion that he will have to choose sides one day. - Ulrike the witch and her warrior companion Laszlo are northerners who arrive at FL’s castle with a letter from the King that introduces them. Ulrike claims that a ritual is required to cure FL and it must be performed tomorrow. - FL agrees to proceed with the ritual. - That night FL meets ML and asks what his plans are if the ritual succeeds. Does he have any other regrets? - ML meets Ulrike to ask how he can get to see the King and the Sun Witch. Ulrike gives him a vial to add to the usual morning medication for FL. He spends all night agonising over what to do. - Before coming to the castle, Ulrike and Laszlo captured the chef to ask him about the Sun Witch and they tortured him to death. - After they disposed of the chef’s body, a royal knight approached them with an introductory letter and a vial. - Anetta is in the nearby village and sees the chef’s body brought in by some guards. They describe the northerners that were seen with the chef before he died. Recognising Ulrike and Laszlo, Anetta races to the castle to tell them. - Ulrike only allows FL and Heisey to be present in the room for the ritual. Ulrike asks where is the castle lord and Heisey says that is she. Ulrike talks about a punishment for stealing god’s power. She pulls a poisoned dagger from her cane to strike Heisey. FL lets her hand be stabbed instead, then heals it with her power. Ulrike says the paralysis poison in FL’s veins can’t be detoxified while she’s fighting. Ulrike now knows FL is the Sun Witch. - Anetta reaches the castle and interrupts Laszlo talking with Griselda. He takes Anetta hostage and says Griselda killed his brother and comrades. Before he can reveal to Anetta that the Sun Witch is the owner of the castle, Griselda throws documents in his face then follows up with her sword in his mouth. Anetta is freed as he struggles with Griselda who kills him with a dagger by slashing his throat. - FL knows there was never a ritual nor a cure. - FL tries to use her magic power to aim a blast at Ulrike, but FL’s arm is becoming paralysed and FL misses. - Heisey strikes Ulrike with a candlestick but gets slashed by the dagger. FL takes the candlestick and uses it to conduct her power as she thrusts it into Ulrike’s face, burning her badly. - FL sucks the poison from Heisey’s arm and ties it up to stop the poison from spreading. She later gets Elkin to treat it. - ML admits to FL and Griselda that he knew the northerners were suspicious. He was given a vial that he didn’t use, instead throwing it over a cliff. FL knows ML made a deal with Ulrike that he won’t reveal. Griselda is furious and tells ML that he must leave the castle. FL tries to defend ML to let him stay. Griselda doesn’t understand FL’s stance on ML since this incident targeted her life. - Anetta tells Griselda and FL the news from Mr Lindemann about the North Chamber of Commerce blocking all imports of medicinal herbs to the royal capital. ML thinks it might be a grudge from the war. He offers to travel north to convince the chamber of commerce to resume the trade of the herbs. Griselda decides to escort him there. FL makes ML promise that he’ll come back safely. - Therion shares with FL that he used to love drawing. His older sister Mila, who never made fun of him, died 8yrs ago in the war. His older brothers Victor and Anton also died in the war. His mother was overcome with grief. As the 4th child, Therion suddenly became the oldest surviving son of the family. - He decided to become a knight like his siblings, to kill the northerners and receive recognition from his mother. - Royal Emrik Monastery: Therion enrolled here as an apprentice knight and trained hard for the next 3yrs. As a freshman he had a fist fight with Dion Fridalte, a senior and the King’s nephew. Dion had been badmouthing Therion’s family. His uncle interrupted the fight and later advised him to speak with his sword, not his fists. His uncle gave Therion his 1st real sword. - Therion had a sparring match with wooden swords against Dion. Therion had 5 rematches before finally winning 1 match. When Dion graduated, he played a final prank on Therion with his cronies and they strung Therion up a flagpole upside down. - Therion returned home in uniform after he graduated. His mother seemed pleased to see him but had in fact mistaken him for Victor. Bitterly disappointed, Therion wished he was on a battlefield and he had died. Lynda his younger sister heard him and was furious. In her anger she told him to leave and he departed. - The war ended in victory before Therion could take part. - Therion tells FL that he’s at the castle because he has nowhere else to go. He wanted to prove something in the war but isn’t sure what that is anymore. He wanted to kill northerners and thought they were savage, inhumane monsters. He now knows he was wrong. - FL hopes he will live his life on his own terms with no regrets. - Griselda and ML chat during their travels. - Griselda wanted to protect Anetta from the horrors of war, but ended up showing her something gruesome and terrifying when Griselda killed Laszlo. ML says if Anetta ever breaks down, all Griselda needs to do is stay beside her. - ML asks about the Sun Witch but Griselda gives him a vague answer. Griselda recalls how she first met FL emerging from a bath and saw that her back had no scars. The story of the Sun Witch: - FL was born in Ardumesha, the Red Land at the eastern end of the continent. It’s known as the birthplace of crows and witches. According to legend, the Sun God Kariya first set foot on this land long ago. It is now an uninhabited wasteland, the Dead Land of the kingdom. - King Mormodes attacked FL’s village when she was a child. A soldier threw her against a stone with a holy symbol and it transferred something that shone brightly to FL which healed her. The king took FL back to the capital and had FL checked by a high priest. It’s confirmed she has Kariya’s Blessing when she heals after being cut by a blade. The King was the one who gave FL the name “Hildegar Ailius”. - The King told FL that she stole something important from him (ie the Blessing). He has her people. If she works hard for him and does what he wants, he will release them and reward her. - Sir Bertram was assigned to FL as her tutor and guardian, with FL also trained eventually in magic and combat skills. He was the Commander of the royal knights, but he was injured when the previous King and older brother of Mormodes was assassinated. - The previous King was a pacifist while Mormodes is more aggressive and hard line. Mormodes has the support of the nobles as most of them are also hard-liners. - Prince Leonard is the young son of the previous King. He was born with a weak body. He asked FL to be friends with him. - Initally FL was headstrong and rebellious. She tried to run away. - FL was poisoned after eating some cakes shared by Leonard. Her rapid recovery was miraculous. The King orders all children in the palace to wear masks, to make it harder to identify and target FL. - 10yo FL had an exhibition match for the King and nobles. Her opponent was her training partner Triana, a death row inmate and swordmaster. Triana had killed her commanding officer and comrades for mistreating northerners, including children. - The nobles targeting FL made a deal with Triana to kill FL in exchange for the safety of her daughter. - During the match, FL won the duel but is ambushed by Triana who picked up her sword again. She cut FL’s body in two then decapitated FL as well. Incredibly FL’s body was revived, showing her immortality and the power of the Blessing. - FL cried as she used light magic with her sword to kill Triana. - The nobles who made the deal with Triana were arrested in front of everyone. The King used this occasion to give a warning to anyone who opposed his will. - Merek, the ruler of the united north. - While still a child, FL took part in her 1st battle. It was to defend the royal castle against the northern army. Her light magic was demonstrated for the first time and instantly killed Otus the giant who led the northerners in this seige battle. - FL accidentally injured Leonard when he grabbed her and she let out a blast of her light magic. She had remained silent as he kept asking her to describe her exciting and glorious exploits on the battlefield. - Bertram tried to get FL to escape. He believed it was a sin to keep using FL’s power. He’s caught and killed. - With FL’s help, the northerners are slowly pushed back. - Albrecht led a separate force to FL that included Victor, Anton and Mila Weidhen. - FL’s unit were called the Sun Knights. - FL’s lieutenants had a low survival rate / high turnover. - Sir Carltz Hess - Diane from the Obenune kingdom, the land of magic. - Ines, a mercenary captain who is a natural leader and strategist.
The Villainess Lives Twice
Ch 143 as of 10/04/23 - plot is slow but very detailed ... (feels like some small details skipped here and there?) https://sawateam.info/the-villainess-lives-twice-chapter-36/ ** End of season 1, Ch 80 ** Ch 113 missing (?) ** bad translation ** also on Tappytoon “To reclaim what is rightfully mine” “Have the power to live a life free of servility” “This will be my greatest revenge on those who scorned me” - FL is Artizea (Tia) Rozan, daughter of a Marquis. - She was betrayed, falsely accused, mutilated and imprisoned by her older brother Lawrence after she’d helped him to become the Emperor. On behalf of Lawrence, countless people suffered and died because of FL. He abandoned FL after he became Emperor. - FL’s mother Miraila became the mistress of Emperor Gregor after Marquis Michael Rozan was given a sapphire mine. Miraila gave birth to Gregor’s son, Lawrence. FL is the daughter of Miraila and Michael. FL was raised by Miraila as a tool to be used by Lawrence. FL never knew love or happiness. - FL forced Saintess Lysia (ex-lover of ML) to marry Lawrence to lend weight and legitimacy to his title as the Crown Prince, even forging a fake oracle from God. Lysia forgave FL and apologised for not being able to protect FL. Isolated and abused by Lawrence, Lysia died from a mysterious illness soon after he became Emperor. (was Lysia pregnant???) - ML rescues FL from prison and asks for her help to end Lawrence’s tyranny. FL weeps and regrets everything she’s done. In remorse FL draws a magic circle with her own blood, intending to turn back time in exchange for her life as the human sacrifice. Instead the spell takes her back in time to her 18yo self. - ML is 27yo Grand Duke Cedric Evron. - ML is known as the shield of the north and the hero of the west. 3yrs / 5yrs ago he saved the Western Army from the brink of collapse and stopped a wave of monsters in the west. - NB: Gregor had ordered ML to go to the west. - House Evron is known as the shield of the Kratez Empire. - ML’s parents were Duke Leofric and Duchess Florella Evron. His mother was Gregor’s sister. - FL set up an “accidental” meeting with ML at the temple. She offers ML a contract marriage with her for 2yrs until she can legally inherit the Rozan estate. In return she’ll help ML become the Emperor for the good of the Empire and it’s citizens’ well-being. - ML dreamt of FL crying from her past life before meeting her. - As Gregor’s nephew, ML is in line for succession of the throne but is not favoured by Gregor (Lawrence is the preferred heir). - 20yrs ago his parents were falsely accused of treason by Gregor and were executed. - It is well known that ML despises Miraila and Lawrence. - By marrying FL and appearing to support Lawrence, Gregor will be less wary of ML. This will allow a faster resolution between them of the victory celebration issue and the appropriate recognition for the Western Army. FL also needs a strong husband to protect her and who is deemed suitable by her mother before FL is 20yo. - FL returns home and stops Countess Charlotte Eunis, Gregor’s daughter, from interrupting Gregor with Miraila. FL advises Charlotte to remember what filial piety truly is and to remind Gregor of his memories with her as his cherished daughter. - FL wants Gregor’s affection for Charlotte to replace some of his affection for Miraila. - When ML visits her home and then finds her at a Count’s ball, he sees for himself how FL is mistreated, neglected and scorned by most of her household and noble society. - FL gets ML to go with her to the slums to see the former butler under Marquis Rozan. Marcus Hanson and his family served the Rozan House for generations. After the Marquis died, they were exiled when Miraila framed them for poisoning all of the other direct descendants, leaving FL as the sole heir. - FL apologises and asks the Hansons to help FL and return to their rightful positions at Rozan estate. Marcus sees this as a chance to reinstate their honour while serving the noble house they love. - While Gregor and Miraila are away at the summer palace for a vacation, ML sends the boutique owner Madam Emily with a full catalogue of dresses as a gift to FL. He also assigns Sir Alphonse Luen as FL’s personal knight. Sir Luen helps discipline Bill the butler and his lack of respect for FL. - FL asks ML to propose with a diamond called Olga’s Heart. ML finds out the jewellery merchant who sold Olga’s Heart 7yrs ago became bankrupt while waiting for payment and died, leaving behind the debt with his children. ML gives a generous payment upfront for the diamond instead. - Baron Yietz bought the diamond with a promissory note. - The Baron then gave the diamond to Marchioness Camellia. The diamond was a bribe for the Baron to receive protection from Camellia in case of any future scandals. - ML continues his search for the diamond at a casino that he discovers is secretly used for trafficking young children who are hidden in the basement dungeon. The casino is owned by Baron Yietz and is likely to be one of the many income sources for Grand Duke Roygar, a man known for his greed. Roygar is ML’s maternal uncle and rival for the throne. - FL obtains the diamond herself from Marchioness Camellia, sister-in-law of Grand Duke Roygar. FL had warned Camellia that it would be in her best interest to withdraw her protection of Baron Yietz, for Roygar’s sake. When crimes involving children are uncovered, the damage to one’s reputation is irreversible. - ML gives FL a diamond bracelet and proposes to her officially. - Gregor is angered by the child trafficking scandal and impressed by ML’s handling of it. He instructs Lawrence to get closer to ML. - NB: Gregor is in favour of ML’s engagement to FL. - FL is hosting a tea party at home without Miraila’s permission. Miraila returns and flies into a fit of rage as she abuses FL in front of the shocked guests. - This is all part of FL’s plan to completely sever ties with Miraila and seize control of the Rozan estate. ML arrives to save FL. He has FL move immediately to his residence in the capital and he takes most of FL’s belongings. FL wants Miraila and Lawrence to remain at the estate for now. - ML is upset that FL let herself get hurt. He wants her to stop seeing herself as a tool and to treasure herself more. While she may strategise for him, he will be her protector. - FL starts to create fractures in the relationship between Lawrence, Miraila and Gregor. She tells Lawrence to seek legitimacy by having the Empress adopt him and declare him as the heir. - FL asked ML’s loyal aide Sir Freyl to be her escort to observe her and make his own judgement. FL sets up secret covert ops for the benefit of ML as part of a broader strategy. - Rai Fidget, an assassin. FL already sent money and a doctor to his younger siblings to convince him to work for her. - FL commissions Rai to assassinate Bill the butler. - FL buys the title and property of Sir Lexen, a low ranking noble from the west. One of FL’s spies called Terri Ford is given the alias Madam Lexen to use when she travels to a city in the south. FL instructs Terri to gain the trust of Duchess Riagan. - FL says to Freyl that ML can unify the Empire, unlike Lawrence or Roygar. The north won’t be abandoned; the west won’t be overrun by monsters; the east won’t rebel; and the south won’t be subjected to threats of conquest by the Eimel kingdom. Freyl pledges his loyalty to FL and offers his help. - Freyl will manage FL’s intel network while also managing the Evron military network. - ML finally receives permission from Gregor to hold a victory celebration for the Western Army. - News arrives for FL that Bill the butler has died after being assaulted by a thief. - Empress Catherine was the only daughter of Duke Riagan. Her youngest child, Prince Favel, was the heir to the Riagan duchy. - After the news of ML’s engagement, ML and FL are invited for an audience with Catherine. FL presents Olga’s Heart as a keepsake to Catherine and FL offers to restore the Fescher Viscounty. - Olga’s Heart was the family heirloom of the Feschers who were friends with Catherine. Viscountess Fescher was Catherine’s lady-in-waiting. They committed suicide to atone for failing to protect Catherine’s 4 children (they died 18yrs ago), including Favel. - Catherine’s parents died in an accident soon after the Feschers’ suicide. Gregor most likely killed them. Since then, Catherine closed the Empress’ Palace and dressed in black mourning clothes. - FL asks to be one of Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting. In return FL will make Gregor lonely and wretched before he dies. She also offers to reclaim the Riagan duchy in the south for Catherine. - As a wedding gift, Catherine returns Olga’s Heart to FL but in it's original place embedded in Saintess Olga’s statue. - FL secretly gave a large salt crystal to Catherine. - The current Duke Riagan is a vassal of Gregor and is responsible for the salt distribution in the south. The money earnt from this salt monopoly is Gregor’s largest source of income. - The Hansons return to serving at the Rozan estate under FL. - Marcus is FL’s aide and first point of contact. - FL meets with the extended Rozan relatives and vassals. She confirms there’ll be no merging of House Rozan with House Evron. - The stage is set for FL and ML’s wedding at the Rozan estate. - A surprise guest enters with the bride: Empress Catherine. - Gregor and Catherine escort the bride and groom down the aisle. Miraila is stopped by Lawrence from attending the wedding. Miraila is later comforted by Gregor. - After the reception, FL and ML spend the night together in the same room for the first time. ML insists they share the bed. - The newlyweds board a ship to go to ML’s estate in the north for their honeymoon. He’s been away for 3yrs. They’re greeted warmly by his retainers, except for 18yo Aubrey Jordin who is in love with ML. FL appoints Aubrey as her lady-in-waiting to keep an eye on her and resolve any problems that could arise. - Count Aaron and Countess Margaret Jordin. They managed the Evron estate and territory while ML was away. - Their daughters are Belle, Fiona, Hayley and Aubrey Jordin. - FL visits the Evron family crypt with ML. - They pay their respects to ML’s parents. - ML shares his dream with FL of making the north self sufficient rather than always relying on the emergency rations sent by the imperial family. Currently the rations are sent as payment for protection against Karam (a 3-eyed 4-armed humanoid race). - The food shortage crisis is ongoing. The population can’t increase and the quality of life is low. To alleviate the cycle of poverty in the north, ML asks FL for her help to achieve his dream. ML predicts there’ll be peaceful relations between Karam and the Empire in the future, with the Evron duchy acting as mediator. - The eastern landlords and nobles support Grand Duke Roygar. - The farms in the east are forced by the imperial family to supply emergency rations to the north. - Nobles and rich landowners monopolise the ownership of farming land in the east. The west is left for independent commoners to farm who have no other choice. The west is prone to monster attacks which causes the amount of grain produced to fluctuate. Farmers fleeing the monsters in the west periodically migrate to the east. They provide cheap labour that is exploited by the nobles and landowners. - FL learns of a secret village near the border that was established by ML to experiment with growing Karam ‘demonic’ crops. FL advises this village to be dismantled right away. It’s too high risk for too little return. Any interaction with Karam the demonic tribe is seen as colluding with the archenemy of the Empire. ML would be charged with treason against the Empire and blasphemy against god. - The Thold mountains forms the northern border and the Thold gateway is the entry between the Evron duchy and Karam. - Hannah is in charge of the Northern Thold Village where the experimental Karam crops are. FL asks Hannah to remove all traces of the village. ML will get Aaron to find jobs for the mixed-bloods. - The experimental crops will be grown in the west under a new name. FL will create a western grain merchant guild. - FL intends to bribe the temple to bless the new crops. - Nobles in the capital are gossiping about the Empress’ Palace reopening and Catherine’s intention to be involved in the succession. Lawrence is seen visiting the Empress’ Palace often. - FL instructed Rai the assassin to act as a fake medium to lure Miraila, who is always anxious and insecure but she isn’t favoured by the temple. His services as a medium have become very popular among the nobility. - Jaden, junior treasurer at the Evron duchy. - FL experiments with creating various prototypes that can be mass manufactured to grow the economy of the north. The main issue is lack of manpower as resources are bountiful. The military and farming are prioritised. FL focuses on the fur and leather industry. - Aubrey throws a tantrum and the jewellery box she was in charge of, which hits and injures one of FL’s maids in the head. - Margaret is informed and she tells the guards to bar Aubrey from the banquet hall for the New Year’s ball. Margaret goes to see FL who gives Margaret the badly damaged jewellery box to fix. It’s a metaphor for Margaret to repair the cracks in their relationship. - Lysia Morten 18yo, daughter of a poor northern Baron and the female protagonist. In FL’s past life, Lysia was engaged to ML. - Lysia lives in “the Rebel Village” where families of the vassals, knights and staff under ML’s parents were hidden by ML. - Lysia arrives at Evron castle to give the New Year greetings on behalf of her family. FL immediately withdraws from any close contact with ML and keeps pushing Lysia to be alone with ML. - FL wants to give Lysia everything that FL took away in her past life. FL is sad that her time with ML is over. - An overdressed Aubrey comes across Lysia and insults FL in a jealous tirade. Lysia gives her a reality check and defends FL while holding onto Aubrey until Margaret comes to take her away. Aubrey is sent to a local monastery to reflect on her actions. Lysia is appointed as FL’s new lady-in-waiting. - ML is away hunting for a few days. - Cadriol, 1st Prince of the Eimel Kingdom and infamous pirate king of the south seas. Eimel is a small island in the south seas. Fishing is their main industry. - The Eimel King didn’t get on with Cadriol’s mother, the previous Eimel Queen. The King also neglected Cadriol who looked like his mother. After Cadriol’s mother died, the 60yo King remarried and the new Queen had a son whom the King adores. The King sees Cadriol as a political threat and a rival. - FL agrees to meet with leather merchants but they’re actually there to kidnap FL. They’re men led by Cadriol. FL colluded with and betrayed Cadriol in their past lives. Cadriol was executed for treason by his father. A few mths ago, he was also reborn like FL. Cadriol escapes with FL from Evron castle and they leave on a ship built to crush ice. He had intended to marry FL. - Earlier at the monastery Aubrey betrayed ML. Cadriol and his men were staying at the monastery and they approached Aubrey. She drew a detailed map of Evron castle and showed Cadriol the best secret passageway to escape through. - ML is furious that Aubrey committed treason and betrayed them when he’d assured FL that no such thing could happen. ML sentences Aubrey to death at the hands of her family. Her oldest sister Belle executes Aubrey with ML’s sword. - ML rides through the snowy night and rescues FL from a house on the harbour that Cadriol had taken control of. - FL asks ML to let Cadriol escape. Earlier FL had made a deal with Cadriol. FL plans to frame Duke Riagan with the assassination of the Eimel Queen. The Duke and the Queen are already secretly cooperating. Cadriol just has to standby and wait. - ML takes FL to the harbour master’s house and ML kisses FL as he tells her over and over that he loves her. They make love and in the morning ML says he wants to pretend their contract doesn’t exist. He proposes to her again. He returns her diamond bracelet to her that she’d left behind and puts it on her wrist (Ch 72). ML says no matter what, she is his one and only wife. - On the way back to Evron castle, ML tells FL not to push him towards anyone else. He knew what she was trying to do with Lysia. In FL’s past life during a ball, ML asked FL to protect Lysia in the imperial palace. He said Lysia was like a younger sister to him. - The carriage is suddenly attacked by a small group of Karam warriors. Reinforcements arrive led by Lysia and the Karam warriors are defeated. Back at the castle, ML leaves for the Thold gateway at the border after he’s notified of a Karam army there with over 20k warriors. For the sake of ML’s hopes for a peaceful future with Karam, ML maintains a stalemate against the Karam army while avoiding any casualties on both sides. - FL investigates the reason for the war. In FL’s past life, there was a war with Karam but it’s still too early for this to happen. - FL finds out from Hannah that the Northern Thold Village is still being dismantled. Karam children were mistaken for mixed blood children and allowed to enter the Thold gateway. - Although the children were quickly returned and compensation given, Karam extremists used this as an opportunity to accuse the Evron duchy of kidnapping and start a war. - Someone in the Northern Thold Village must’ve leaked info about the village to Karam (possibly the Evron priest?) - FL decides to return to the capital to hasten her plans and prepare for any other possible variables. She sends Lysia with a letter to the Thold gateway to let ML know. Lysia sees for herself that the Karam army have for the first time copied human war tactics and human-designed weapons for siege warfare. FL suspects there is a Karam army commander that has returned to the past like her. - ML hurries back to Evron castle to spend time with FL before she leaves (Ch 83-83.5). FL had considered never seeing ML again after she returned to the capital. FL is finding it harder to remain committed to leaving ML after he becomes Emperor and she’s removed as many threats as possible. - FL promotes the remaining Jordin sisters as her ladies-in-waiting. FL assigns Belle and Fiona to oversee the Evron duchy in FL’s absence. FL travels to the capital with Lysia and Hayley. - Miraila summons Rai as the fake medium to the Rozan estate to check for evil spirits. She thinks the spirit of Marquis Rozan has cursed her since FL left. Miraila’s greatest fears are her beauty fading away and being alone. Miraila also gets Rai to check the imperial palace for evil spirits and curses. - Recently Miraila has been holding more imperial balls for Gregor and inviting other noble ladies to sleep with him. - FL meets Rai and tells him to start winding down his business as a medium. She wants him to find someone for her in the east and then go into hiding with his siblings. - Ansgar, ML’s head butler and aide in the capital. - He’s overseeing the renos at the Evron residence in the capital. - Countess Martha, one of Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting. - Martha recently opened a salon at the Empress’ Palace. Catherine met young ladies there who debuted this year. The ladies came from politically neutral families. Anyone who wants to get close to Catherine gather at this salon. Lawrence is often seen at this salon. - There are now 3 political arenas / spheres of influence for noble society in the capital: the imperial balls held by Gregor, Martha’s salon that’s aligned with Catherine, and Marchioness Camellia’s salon supported by Grand Duke Roygar. - FL visits Empress Catherine and gives her a fox fur stole from the north. To take advantage of the political power generated from Martha’s salon, FL plans to hold a bday celebration for Catherine, her first in 18yrs. - Meanwhile Lysia debuts into noble society at Martha’s salon. - FL returns after speaking with Catherine and is shocked to see Lawrence with Lysia. He happened to meet Lysia at the food table. He suddenly had a brief vision from his time as Emperor with Lysia from their past lives. - FL takes Lawrence for a walk to separate him from Lysia. Lawrence has been trying to win Catherine’s favour. To improve his reputation, he ended all of his relationships with various women. FL hints to him about the daughter of the Riagan duchy and that he should consider getting married. She agrees that Lawrence should discuss the matter with his supporters. - FL gets Hayley to make her social debut at Marchioness Camellia’s salon. FL wanted Hayley to meet the Marchioness. Instead Hayley ends up meeting Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Roygar. She presents them with gifts from the north, fur rabbits and a fox fur stole. In return they give Hayley some wine from their territory of Barque in the east. - Grand Duke Roygar blames ML for increased costs in the east. - The cheap labour from western migrants has ceased since ML stopped the monster attack. Farmers returned to the west as they have faith that ML will save them if another monster attack occurs. Roygar mentions the western granary. (Does he know about the renamed Karam crops?) - FL takes Lysia to visit the temple. FL is surprised to meet Marchioness Camellia who is there with her daughter Skyla. - They discuss the situation in the north. - Later Camellia understands what FL was implying. Gregor could use the Karam war to force more resources from the nobles to supply the north. This would act as a way for Gregor to keep the nobles in check. - FL wants to create a haven in the west in case the north should ever fall and they need a place to retreat to. - FL hinted to Camellia at the possibility of Evron opening the way to Karam? - Brother Colton is a retired old bishop from the west and now a monk living in the capital. FL wants to see him for advice on starting a charity project for the western farmers. While waiting for him, she starts to pray despite not believing in God. A voice shouts ‘Return!’ and she faints. - When FL wakes, Brother Colton is there. He says she’s received an oracle and is a Saintess. FL rejects this, but Colton says an oracle is given to someone who can change history. - FL thinks if she really is the Saintess then she’s taken everything away from Lysia … - ML meets with the Karam representatives after the Karam army wave white flags. Apua, the prince of the largest tribe in Karam, hands ML a letter. It states Apua is there to pick up on what will happen in 20yrs time. ML is referred to as the fallen monarch, the only powerful human that Karam can communicate with. - Dame Amelie Harper, Chief of Staff, Military Affairs Ministry and honorary Countess. 24yrs ago she led the retreat of the Western Army from a wave of monsters and saved many lives. She decided to serve the Emperor rather than stay in the west. - FL meets privately with Dame Harper. FL gets the Dame to consider ML as a potential heir for the Emperor instead of Lawrence, whom the Dame currently supports. - In a meeting with the Emperor’s vassals and Lawrence, Dame Harper makes a suggestion for Lawrence to gain the favour of the Empress. He can ask about marrying the adopted daughter of the Riagan duchy? - During a visit to the imperial palace, Gregor asks FL about the land she bought in the west (?) Instead of donating the land to charity, Gregor gives the key to the granary to FL. He wants her to take charge of the grain business in the west that’s currently a mess. - As FL leaves the palace, Miraila approaches FL. Miraila weeps openly and says sorry to FL for getting angry. She asks for FL to forgive her. FL gives Miraila a handkerchief then leaves. - Marchioness Camellia was an illegitimate child born from a maid. Marquis Luden allowed her to marry his youngest son. - Grand Duchess Roygar is the daughter of Marquis Luden. - Because of her debt to Marquis Luden, Marchioness Camellia’s role is to support the Grand Duchess. - Skyla visits FL late one night without letting Marchioness Camellia know. She wants her family to be free from the chains that bind them to the Luden and Roygar families. - FL asks Skyla for help in choosing noble ladies to invite to the Empress’ bday. FL asks Skyla to choose ladies who don’t have any family responsibilities yet. - Lawrence visits FL but is actually there to see Lysia. - He runs into Lysia as he’s leaving. He’s been dreaming of Lysia and can’t sleep. He doesn’t realise his dreams and emotions are from his past life. - Lysia has also been having inexplicable feelings about Lawrence. Unknown to her, these are also from her past life. - Lysia volunteers to go to the west on FL’s behalf to help with managing the grain business there. - NB: Lady Hazel and Lady Mielle were invited to the tea party at the Rozan estate where Miraila caused a scene. - Lady Hazel Belmond’s family runs an influential newspaper. - Her mother is the heiress to the capital’s largest newspaper company. Her father is a famous writer. - FL asks for Hazel’s help with invitations to scholars and writers that she recommends for the Empress’ bday. - Lady Mielle Keyshore, daughter of a knight who is one of Gregor’s six generals. She was born with a weak body and died as a young adult in FL’s past life. FL visits Mielle with the promise to Sir Keyshore of helping Mielle. Sir Keyshore is sworn to secrecy about FL’s involvement in Mielle’s recovery. FL can only give Mielle an extension of 10yrs on her life. - FL casts a spell using her blood to draw a small magic circle on a cloth that is draped over the unconscious Mielle’s face. Then FL transforms her life force into holy power to activate the magic. FL extends Mielle’s life at the cost of FL’s own life. - FL loans the statue of Saintess Olga to Sir Keyshore so it appears that Mielle’s recovery is due to the statue. - Miraila is feeling isolated and fearful for her survival. Both FL and Lawrence refuse to see her. She can’t complain to Gregor in case it impacts his opinion of Lawrence. - Hazel visits Miraila to ask about the medium (ie Rai). Hazel feels guilty for inviting the medium who was interrupted by Mielle’s father. Hazel thinks she might have caused Mielle’s recent bad health due to an evil spirit. It was FL who encouraged Hazel to followup on Rai for her own peace of mind. Hazel doesn’t know that Rai is working for FL. - Rai recently admitted to Miraila that he was a con artist and he told her because he felt sorry for her. Before he disappeared, Rai said spirits don’t have the power to curse people. Only people can curse other people. Miraila decides to find a way to get rid of the Empress through a curse. - Hazel learns about Miraila’s new medium from one of the Rozan maids. Hazel follows Miraila and finds a room with slaughtered animals for a magic sacrifice. When Hazel hears that Miraila intends to sacrifice children next, she asks Sir Keyshore to stop Miraila. FL had already warned Sir Keyshore that Miraila might do something terrible. He finds Miraila with captured orphan children in a magic circle and arrests her. - Empress Catherine’s bday celebration: Catherine isn’t wearing mourning clothes for the first time. She enters with a surprise escort, the son of Viscount Fescher. This is a clear sign that she has no intention of adopting Lawrence as her son. - Lawrence and FL hear about Miraila’s arrest at the start of the celebration. They return to their residences. - The temple will investigate Miraila’s crimes. - FL goes with Bishop Akim, who FL suspects is working with Roygar. She offers to donate the Rozan estate to the temple. FL and Hayley are confined to a small, cold room normally used by monks at the temple. The faction under Brother Colton ensures they have proper meals at least. - Roygar most likely wants Miraila, Lawrence and FL to be all charged with treason. He will use FL to negotiate with ML and keep him estranged from Gregor. Roygar, Camellia and Akim think FL set up the incident with Miraila but they have no proof. - FL suddenly collapses because of her weak constitution and Hayley urgently calls for a doctor. Hayley also sets off an emergency flare to alert the other Evron knights waiting outside. - Akim refuses to let the knights enter the temple to retrieve FL or speak with Hayley. Akim is surprised by ML’s sudden arrival with the Archbishop. ML made his way to the capital as soon as he heard about Miraila. - ML enters the temple to find Hayley pointing a gun at priests who tried to take FL away to hide her. ML arrests the priests for attempted kidnapping. He leaves with FL in his arms. - Back at the Evron residence in the capital, ML finds out from the doctor that FL is pregnant. She seems to have intentionally hid the truth from ML. While he’s happy about the baby, ML is upset that FL still doesn’t treat herself with care. - Later that night, ML visits Gregor at the palace. - ML kneels and addresses Gregor as his uncle for the first time. He acknowledges his royal blood because he wants Gregor to charge Bishop Akim with treason. ML willingly gives up his pride and his family’s resentment for the sake of revenge, and the protection of FL and their child. - As ML is leaving, he comes across Lawrence. ML gets angry when Lawrence shows little concern for FL. ML says he won’t let Lawrence become Emperor and he’s capable of killing Lawrence at any time. - Before FL collapsed, she gave 3 orders to Hayley: Contact Brother Colton; request assistance from Bishop Nicos and appeal to the Archbishop; and keep the knights under control. - The Evron knights have already surrounded the temple. - Whatever happens, Bishop Akim must go and Roygar must be brought down. - Lysia has returned to the capital after hearing about FL. She blames herself for not staying by FL’s side. - FL is unconscious for 2 days and is shocked to hear that she’s pregnant when she wakes up. FL’s menstruation was irregular so she thought she was infertile. FL is terrified of having the baby. She's afraid she’ll be a hopeless mother like Miraila. She hates the idea that the baby might look like her, Miraila or Lawrence. - ML is notified that FL is awake. He sees how upset she is and says it’s ok if she doesn’t want the baby. If she doesn’t hate the idea of having his baby though, he hopes she’ll give birth. - FL still thinks she’s taken everything from Lysia. - Lysia visits FL and says FL must really want children because she’s so worried. FL realises deep down she always wanted a family of her own and the chance to raise her children with love. - Bishop Akim suddenly dies from poison. He was killed by Marchioness Camellia to remove all evidence of Grand Duke Roygar’s involvement. - Miraila is sentenced to excommunication and banishment for life. FL and Lawrence are absent from court. - Gregor offers the 1st State Secretary position to ML. Then Gregor offers the 2nd State Secretary position to Lawrence. ML will be preoccupied with work in the capital while Lawrence will be sent to the south as his last opportunity to prove himself. - Lysia has been dreaming of Lawrence. - One night she meets him and asks him to leave everything behind and run away with her. He refuses and offers to make her an Empress instead. - Rai and Freyl bring a male descendant called Ian? from House Camellia to FL. She wants him to file a lawsuit for inheritance. - Skyla wants to switch her allegiance to FL.
This Is An Obvious Fraudulent Marriage Webtoon
** DROPPED ** Rate 2.5 so far. Read ch 19 as of 26/10/20 - FL is dumb, annoying and soooo clueless. I think this is meant for comedy effect? How could she not know the true identity of ML until ch 15.
Trash of the Count's Family
Ch 84 as of 01/06/22 - baby black dragon is cute - ML awakes to find he is reborn as minor antagonist Cale Henituse 18yo, the trashy 1st son of a very rich Count in the novel “Birth of a Hero”. ML was an orphan with no attachments who fell asleep while reading the novel. - The hero is Choi Han 17yo, seeking to honour the dead and avenge the massacre of Harris village by a secret organisation who wore clothes with a star-shaped symbol. - Choi Han grew up alone in the Forest of Darkness, constantly fighting monsters. He escaped from the forest and was cared for by the people of Harris village that is in the Henituse territory. - ML aims to become reasonably powerful so he may live a long, peaceful life without any difficulties or pain. He needs enough strength and abilities to protect himself while not standing out too much. ML isn’t interested in being the heir and managing the Count’s territory in the Roan kingdom on the western continent. - ML lives in the city of Westin in the Henituse territory. - ML’s family are Count Deruth, Countess Violan (ML’s stepmother), and his younger half siblings Basen and Lily 7yo. - Basen had been acting as the family heir for the last 2yrs. - Choi Han comes to Westin to report the village massacre to Count Henituse. He’s denied access to the city because he has no ID papers. He jumps over the walls to secretly enter the city at night. - ML later adopts 2 x siblings from the Fog Cat tribe, Mist Silver ‘On’ and Red Poison ‘Hong’. He first met them as a couple of street kids. He fed them in cat form to get Choi Han to follow ML home. - ML brings in Choi Han as his house guest. Head butler Ron Molan and his son, chef Beacrox will follow Choi Han later. Ron and Beacrox are secretly skilled assassins from the eastern continent. - Ron was the heir to a family of assassins. - A group called “Arm” rules the underworld of the eastern continent. Arm are part of a larger organisation and have started to extend their reach into the western continent. - Ron and Beacrox have been in hiding from Arm. - ML obtains the “Indestructible Shield” after feeding the grudge of a glutton who starved to death a long time ago and was buried underneath the now ancient tree. It’s a formless shield around the heart, similar to a mana shield. It will prioritise the safety of it’s owner over everything else. - Princess Rosalyn, genius mage and heir to the throne of the neighbouring Breck kingdom. She’s not interested in the throne. Her dream is to establish the greatest magic tower on the continent. - Lock of the Blue Wolf tribe, heir to the Wolf King. When he goes berserk, he turns into a violent werewolf. - The Count wants ML to go to the capital as the family representative for a royal event after seeing the recent change in ML’s behaviour. To pay back ML for his hospitality, ML asks Choi Han to bring Rosalyn and Lock to ML in the capital. - ML encouraged Choi Han to protect and save, rather than just kill. - ML’s entourage for the trip to the capital includes Hans the deputy butler, the cat siblings, Ron, Beacrox and Choi Han. - Choi Han earns the respect of the Vice Captain and the other knights after defeating most of a large group of bandits. - Venion Stan, 2nd son of a Marquis. He’s a villain who crippled his older brother to become the unofficial heir. - On the way to the capital, ML stops at a village. Choi Han saves an old man who was almost run over by Venion’s carriage. - ML’s entourage stay at the old man’s inn. - ML used his knowledge of the novel to rescue a 4yo baby black dragon held captive and tortured by Venion ever since the dragon was born. This is to prevent the dragon as an adult going on a destructive rampage in the future. - Earlier ML rented a mana disturbance tool that makes all magic tools within a certain range stop working for 40mins. ML had the cat siblings bury this tool near the cave where the dragon was imprisoned. ML and Choi Han disguise themselves as masked men from the secret organisation that attacked Choi Han’s village. - Choi Han and the cat siblings take care of Venion’s guards while all of the magic tools around the cave have been disabled. - ML carries the injured dragon as they escape from the cave. - ML removes the mana restriction collar from the dragon. - While the cat siblings retrieve the mana disturbance tool, ML gets the dragon to drink a healing potion. He says the dragon has the right to live freely as one. It should live the way it wants to. - ML doesn’t want to be responsible for the dragon and the unwanted attention it brings. Even though ML told the dragon to go it’s own way, the dragon follows ML while staying hidden. The dragon keeps leaving animals it hunted for ML’s entourage to eat. - Choi Han separates from ML’s entourage at Pursal / Puzzle city to find Rosalyn and Lock. This city is known for it's rock towers. - Long ago during a time when the city fell out of favour with a god, the people started making rock towers as a kind of prayer. A person who has had their wish granted will destroy their rock tower. It means you must use your own strength to achieve your goals. - ML visits the ancient grave of a man who died naturally from old age at 150yo. Near the grave is the rock tower the man almost completed before he died. ML completes the tower then destroys it to show he’s overcome his limits. ML obtains the “Vitality of the Heart” from the man’s rock tower. This is another ancient power that makes ML’s “Shield” stronger and his ability to recover faster. - Taylor Stan, 1st son of Marquis Stan. - He was discarded as the heir when he became crippled. - He’s been desperately searching for a way to cure his legs. - Cage, a god of death priestess (who wants to be excommunicated?) and Taylor’s bodyguard. - She can hear her god’s voice. - She had dreams of meeting their future benefactor in Puzzle city. - ML had the cat siblings setup a fake message from god to Taylor Stan through Cage. It says to seek out the Crown Prince for his ancient power “Star of Healing” that can only be used once to heal any type of injury. They can obtain this power by helping the Crown Prince keep the other princes in check. - Taylor decides to head to the capital right away. - Taylor and Cage ask to join ML’s entourage on the way to the capital. ML has his staff treat them with respect and care, unlike everyone else who abandoned Taylor when he became crippled. - ML helps Taylor and Cage secretly get past the capital city gates using an invisibility tool before they part ways. - The royal event in the capital is the King’s 50th bday celebration. - At the Henituse residence in the capital, Choi Han and Princess Rosalyn arrive with Lock who is about to go berserk for the 1st time. Lock is taken to the underground training area. Rosalyn and Choi Han fight and protect Lock until he calms down and collapses. - On and Hong are yet to undergo their berserk transformation. - Beast people temporarily lose their sanity when they enter beast mode for the 1st time. This is due to the pain from their physical transformation. - Choi Han tells ML how he met Rosalyn and Lock as instructed by ML. There was an assassination attempt on Rosalyn as she was travelling from Breck via Roan to the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom. She decided to head to the Roan capital and go to an info guild to find out more about who was trying to kill her. She and Choi Han were hired as mercenaries escorting a merchant group. - The merchant group were scheduled to meet with the Blue Wolf tribe. Lock’s wolf tribe village was destroyed by the same secret organisation that wiped out Choi Han’s village. - The attackers were trying to kidnap the wolf children and killing everyone else. Lock protected the children. - Choi Han saw a mage drinking blood. Redika is a blood crazy, high level mage and the co-leader of the secret organisation. - ML takes Choi Han to the god of death temple. - ML vows by the god of death to Choi Han that he doesn’t know the identity or goal of the secret organisation. ML knows they’re planning a terrorist attack in the capital and he wants to stop them. - ML also vows that he has no desire to harm Choi Han. - Lastly ML vows to tell Choi Han if ML finds out the identity of the secret organisation. If ML breaks any of these vows, he’ll die. ML now has Choi Han’s complete trust. - ML has lunch with Rosalyn and introduces her to the baby dragon who has joined them. The dragon insists it’s with ML because he’s so weak and needs protecting. - House Henituse and House Wheelsman have a close relationship. - ML meets with the other neutral NE nobles, Eric Wheelsman (son of a Count), Gilbert and Lady Amirel Ubarr. To pacify the trashy, volatile nature of the original Cale, they insist on looking after everything at the upcoming events so ML can just relax and avoid anything annoying. All they ask is for ML to stay still and to greet the Crown Prince with them. - The plaza / magic bomb terror incident: - In the novel, the terrorist attack planned by the secret organisation occurs where the most people are gathered. - ML, Choi Han and the dragon go out late at night into the city streets of the capital. ML assigns Choi Han and the dragon to look around each night for any magic bombs. These bombs are scheduled to go off in multiple locations across the city in 6 days. ML plans to get rid of the bombs just before they’re detonated on the day of the royal event. - Alberu Crossman, Crown Prince and 1st Prince. - He’s the son of a maid who died when he was a young boy. - He’s ‘not weak’ according to the dragon. - Alberu is known for being skilled at manipulating people for the good of the Roan kingdom and it’s citizens. - The 3rd Prince is currently favoured by the King and his mother is the current Queen. Marquis Stan also supports the 3rd Prince. - Alberu was the one who called for a gathering in the capital of all the young nobles, as future leaders of the Roan kingdom. The 2nd and 3rd Princes also attend. The tables at the palace are arranged according to their noble faction: NE, NW, SE, SW and Central. - Taylor and Cage make a surprise appearance at the gathering. They are seated at the NE table where ML is. Venion is furious. - Neo Tolz, son of a Viscount and Venion’s lackey. - 5yrs ago Viscount Tolz became allies with Marquis Stan. The land where the dragon was imprisoned belongs to Viscount Tolz. - Lock takes ML to meet the 10 wolf children at the inn that ML has them staying at. Lock asks ML if he could protect these children. - Billos, illegitimate son of the Flynn Merchant guild master. - He owns the bookshop / tea shop in Westin that ML frequents. - Odeus Flynn, Billos’ uncle who started his own small merchant guild. Odeus was the one who hired Choi Han and Rosalyn as mercenaries. He secretly rules the underworld (?) - ML agrees to let Ron take a year off to kill ‘a group of foxes’. - He promises to send monthly reports to ML. He asks ML to look after his son. - Northeastern Shoreline Investment and Development project: - After a suggestion from ML, Lady Amirel seeks the permission of the royal family to build a military naval base in her territory and Gilbert’s territory. She asks ML to put in a word with his father to help fund the project. This will shift the balance of power to the NE nobles instead of towards the royal family who will also invest heavily in the project. - Count Henituse is already fortifying his territory’s walls. - The royal family are aware that the nearby Whipper kingdom will soon face a civil war. The kingdoms in the north are also gathering their forces. - Taylor is completely healed after making a deal with the Crown Prince, who wants to avoid a civil war in Roan. Taylor has promised to become the next Marquis. - King Zed Crossman. He succeeded the throne at 20yo. - The day of the King’s 50th bday celebration and festival: - In the early morning, ML has 3 teams (Choi Han / the dragon, Lock / Rosalyn, and the cat siblings) dismantle the 4 magic bombs they’d already located before. - Redika the blood crazy mage appears at 9am as expected. Several agents from the secret organisation also appear. ML activates the mana disturbance tool for 10mins to give his teams a chance to search for and remove magic bombs that 4 people are carrying. - The royal mages create a mana stabilisation barrier over the city centre. After the other bombs failed, Redika sends 2 suicide agents carrying magic bombs into the plaza. - The strong explosions from the 2 bombs are mostly contained within a barrier created by the dragon and ML who used his Shield ability. ML recovers quickly due to his Vitality ability. - Redika uses teleportation to disappear with the other agents. - Choi Han, Lock and the cat siblings were already sent by ML to where he’d reappear. Later Choi Han reports to ML that he killed all of the agents but only managed to chop off the mage’s arm and injure his eye. Ron and Beacrox have been informed of Redika’s appearance by Choi Han and will look out for the mage. - ML had publicly revealed he has an ancient power. - ML is treated as a VIP by Alberu who promises to generously reward ML. They understand each other and will use the aftermath of this incident for their own benefit. ML wanted his role downplayed, so Alberu portrayed ML as a young and weak nobleman who stepped forward for the kingdom’s sake. - ML asks for money as his reward. He’s given the authority to use the Golden Plaque twice. The Plaque can buy anything, no matter the cost. - ML and the black dragon are curious why Alberu chose to be weak and hide. Alberu didn’t reveal his strength during the suicide bombing where some people still died or were badly injured. Alberu isn’t human … - ML thanks everyone involved for saving so many lives. - Rosalyn will take Choi Han and Lock back with her to the Breck kingdom for her protection, now that her true identity has been revealed to the royal family in Roan. - ML tells Lock to return to the Henituse territory after 3mths where the wolf children will be waiting for him. Meanwhile ML has the wolf children training under Beacrox in the kitchen. - ML declined the medal of honour from the royal family. - ML uses a communication orb to reassure his family that he’s ok. - Taylor sends a message to say he’ll contact ML when he’s become the Marquis. That’s when the dragon can finally get revenge on Venion. - ML leaves the capital and arrives at the Ubarr territory. - ML plans to obtain the 3rd ancient power ‘Sound of Wind’ from the Ubarr territory. ML meets Lady Amirel Ubarr at a village near the Cliff of Winds which has many dangerous whirlpools below. - Toonka the tyrant, the “intelligent barbarian” and a mage slayer from the Whipper kingdom. - He’s the strongest on the western continent. - He’s obsessed with strength and danger. - He was rescued from a whirlpool by Lady Amirel’s people after he was shipwrecked. - The civil war in the Whipper kingdom is between the mage faction and the non-mage faction (called barbarians by the mages) who focus on physical strength. In the novel, the mages lose the war and the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom is destroyed. - During the day ML visits one of the islands nearby with Beacrox, the Vice Captain and the dragon. - The dragon saw 3 dead mer-people on the beach on the other side of the island and took ML there to confirm. - There is an ongoing war between the whale tribe and the mer-people. The mer-people want to expand their underwater kingdom beyond the south to cover the entire ocean, but the whale tribe don’t want to give up their territory in the north. - ML returns to the island at night with the help of the dragon. - A new magic bomb was made by the dragon using the condensed mana from the old dismantled magic bombs. This bomb divides itself into many smaller bombs before exploding. - ML throws the bomb into the strongest whirlpool near the island. After the bomb explodes, ML enters the whirlpool. - Long ago a legendary thief stole an item from a temple. She drowned when her legs were trapped under a boulder at the bottom of the ocean. She became a spinning top that creates whirlpools. - ML digs out the spinning top and crushes it to give freedom to the spirit of the thief. ML receives the Sound of Wind which seems to strengthen his Vitality ability as well. - ML finds a hidden cave near the water’s edge on the mainland. There he collects fire-suppressing water to be used later … - Paseton / Paethon, the only mixed blood member of the whale tribe and the son of the Whale King. - He was dying after being injured and poisoned by mer-people. ML saves Paseton by getting him to drink the blood of a mer-person. (The blood was from one of the 3 dead mer-people that ML confirms later were killed by Paseton). - Paseton’s older sister Whitira is the heir of the Whale King. - Lady Amirel takes ML and Toonka with a research team to investigate the explosion and the whirlpool that disappeared. - ML heads to the other side of the island and finds the bodies of the dead mer-people are gone. Whitira appears in whale form to thank ML for saving Paseton. Toonka suddenly arrives to challenge the whales to a fight. - Lady Amirel and her team hear the commotion. ML uses his Shield to protect them from the large wave caused by the fight. - Toonka is banished from the Ubarr territory for his act of violence. - ML helps to arrange for a ship to take Toonka back to the Whipper kingdom. ML tells Toonka to try not to destroy the Whipper magic tower so ML can buy it later. Toonka tells ML to visit the Whipper kingdom in 2mths. - Whitira and Paseton ask ML to help them enter the Forest of Darkness to investigate a swamp mentioned by the mer-people. - The mer-people suddenly became stronger about 2mths ago. The reason for this is connected to the swamp. - ML is offered the authority to use a sea route that hasn’t been discovered yet by humans. It is the safest out of all the sea routes and goes through the northern sea in the whale tribe’s territory. - ML asks for the whale tribe to lend their strength to him twice in the future. - The mer-people are trying to take control of all the sea routes between the eastern and western continents. - There’s an implicit agreement between those on the land and those of the sea. The sea routes were not to be touched by those of the sea, while those on the land didn’t interfere with issues of the sea. - ML returns home (with Whitira and Paseton hidden?) - ML contacts Alberu with a communication orb. He leaves a message to say he’ll be using the Golden Plaque to buy the magic tower of the Whipper kingdom. - the 4th ancient power, the Inferno of Destruction
Otherworldly Sword King's Survival Records
Ch 146 as of 07/09/22 - rate 3.5 so far (also on Tapas) ** Ch 129 missing (duplicate of Ch 128) - ML is Ryu Han Bin, discharged from his 2yr mandatory military service 3mths ago. ML was suddenly teleported to another world called Thelha Rath’na as a Chosen One (for the Demon God). - NB: ‘Chosen Ones’ don’t age and also have rapid recovery / healing abilities. Chosen Ones can see a guideline (ie status window) that shows the level of other humans and creatures. - ML must progress to L5 before he can move to another region. - There’s a system error with his transmission and he is the only ‘Chosen One’ to receive a defective guideline implanted in him. - He can only select the warrior class (rejected for all others) and he can only select the long sword as his beginner weapon. - He keeps ignoring the option to kill himself. - ML spends 22yrs alone, stuck in a starting safe zone called the Rock Mountains and trying to level up endlessly as a swordsman / warrior. He keeps going back to L1 despite gaining experience points (XP). - ML hones his basic skills (ie stab, side slash, vertical slash = cross impact / triple cross attack) to deadly perfection against the countless monsters that keep spawning and getting stronger. - He increases his vital stats to incredibly high numbers too (but they remain mostly hidden to others). - NB: Sathe Forest is in the Grailutte (was destroyed) / Exradd kingdom, Northern Rath’na continent. - After being noticed by one of the mysterious higher powers that be, ML is finally released from his solitary hell. He’s been teleported to the Sathe Forest. He’s attains L5 at last, and gains a communication skill of “language translation”. - He may now form a party with other ‘Chosen Ones’. - Despite not officially reaching L20, ML is on the Rath’na continent where the main fight begins. - His guideline (created by the Demon God?) gives him “The Final Mission” to kill 1 of the 6 Rath’na goddesses (of fire, water, wind, earth, darkness and light). - The final reward options are: - eternal youth and immortality, - return to Earth with his stats intact, or - 3 wishes will be granted. - ML must keep his identity as an other worlder a secret. - He must also register at the Hunters Guild in Onprous City. - ML meets Ephyr the wyvern L27, who attacked ML first but was beaten with one punch. Ephyr was a knights’ Mount but is now in hiding. A spoilt young prince died after falling from Ephyr while trying to ride her. - Ephyr tells ML that other worlders started appearing 40yrs ago and at first got along with the Rathnians. Soon the other worlders started killing Rathnians to increase their levels. They formed a group called Great Ursula (Great Earth) with the aim of killing a goddess. The 4 Heroes of the continent wiped out this group. - To meet a goddess, you have to be 1 of the 4 Heroes or you’ve done a great service to receive a blessing. Becoming a hunter and fighting the dungeon monsters created by the Demon God would count as a great service. - ML registers as a hunter at the Onprous Hunters Guild, with help and advice from Ephyr. He uses a fake identity under the name Eric Garrune from North Cambol. - The measuring stone at the guild reveals ML is L5, which removes suspicion he’s an other worlder who all start at L20. - ML is invited to join Burkeman’s party as a member. - Burkeman Ropall L25 swordsman, strongest tank in Onprous city. - Amber Bonnet L21 spearwoman. - Hubert Crutaus L18 magician. - Erwin Ropall L16 spiritualist, a healer, Burkeman’s younger sister. - Atisse / Artis Benister, L37 mage. - Head of the famous dragon hunter Benister family. - ML came across Artis naked in the forest when ML sensed a strong presence nearby and came to see if it was a large monster. - ML accidentally destroys the balls of Laude, L27 magic swordsman and Artis’ party leader. - ML is with Burkeman’s party for 3mths. - At Sathe Forest, none of the monsters’ levels are high enough for ML to gain XP. Ephyr has the highest level and even that’s too low for ML. - Iphen Plains dungeon: - ML comes across a magic portal to the dungeon after fighting some monsters. ML receives a fireball bracelet (30 uses) after killing a L40 boss monster. The item has a minimum L31 requirement for the owner to use it. - ML enters the central area of the dungeon. He’s attacked by a L45 tentacle beholder, the final boss. Laude was lost in the dungeon and arrives in the central area but thinks ML is an illusion. - The beholder possesses Laude and gets him to attack ML. The beholder is easily defeated by ML who splits it in half. - ML leaves the dungeon and returns to Burkeman’s camp without taking the magic core. - The guideline bug persists in how much XP is needed for ML to level up (54 billion!). He finds this out only after killing the final boss in this his 1st dungeon raid. - Burkeman’s party arrive back at Onprous city. - Someone else took the magic core which closed the Iphen Plains dungeon. This is why the city is now deserted as the city relied on hunters who came for the dungeon. - No one knows who took the magic core but the most likely suspect is it was an other worlder. An Inquisitor in charge of finding and executing other worlders is sent by the church of darkness. Anyone over L20 will be captured and tortured until they confess. - Artis tries to save ML from the suspicions of the Inquisitor after ML accidentally drops the fireball bracelet. - Laude shows up in time to admit he closed the dungeon and he is taken away by the Inquisitor instead. - ML is given monetary compensation by the Inquisitor. - ML gets Artis to give the money to Burkeman’s party on his behalf and to tell them he’s quitting the Hunter’s Guild. - ML did this to protect Burkeman’s party from the Inquisitor who might kill them for being associated with him. - ML spends the next 6mths working for the Chairman of the Onprous Architecture Association who knows ML is secretly an other worlder. - Artis the 150yo, L52 fire mage (and secretly a fire dragon) recruits ML to assist in collecting magic research samples in Sathe Forest. - They find an abandoned village overrun with kobolds. Artis destroys all of them with fire magic. ML finds a closed magic portal in a well. - ML and Artis fight a L72 lich. Artis reveals he’s a dragon and gets badly injured while protecting ML. Artis sees ML’s true strength when ML destroys the lich’s giant ice sword and the ice dome in one strike. ML grinds the lich's arms and legs to dust. - With it's body held captive, the lich initiates for it's body to self destruct. ML kicks the lich far away, saving himself and Artis. - ML takes Artis back to Onprous city for treatment. ML tells Artis that all he wants is to live like an ordinary person while adapting to this world. Artis is in ML’s debt and he’ll never forget the debt he owes to ML. The Chairman helps ML leave the city. - The lich was an other worlder called Shin Ha Jun, and he revealed to Artis and ML that Great Earth is involved. The comrades of the lich, Richard, Leslie and Alejandro later find where he exploded. These other worlders have captured Ephyr and are after Artis next. - Great Earth are experimenting on Rathnian humans by artificially implanting guidelines, but they can’t gain XP yet. They use monster parts to nullify the side effects of the implant, making the Rathnian half-human and half-monster. They want a dragon core to complete these experiments which is why they want Artis. - ML travels to the next city, Heitan the dungeon city. On the way he picks up a bandit called Calindor and accidentally gives all of ML’s gold coins to Calindor to start a new life. - Artis bought a house in the city and wants ML to join his party. - Heitan is built over a huge gorge that has the largest dungeon in the north, the Crater Valley dungeon. - When Artis registers at the Heitan Hunters’ Guild, he has ML disguise himself as a Valterian warrior. ML breaks the measuring stone as an “evil artifact” so his level isn’t revealed. Artis registers ML as his bodyguard. - Crater Valley dungeon: Artis tells ML about a dragon’s ability to absorb an opponent’s life force into it’s dragon core. Too much life force is dangerous and could even kill the dragon. - In order for greater dragons (older than 500yrs+) to absorb even greater life force, a place called a dragon’s nest was created where life force could be gathered like a well. - Ellie the blind girl, L34 magic swordswoman. - She’s a subordinate of Alejandro’s that has an artificial guideline. Her mother was a hunter who died when she was a child. Ellie was taken away by Alejandro and the guideline was forcibly implanted in her, making her lose her sight. Her role is to test the other Rathnian experiments by fighting against them. - Alejandro and his comrades were given the dragon’s nest at Heitan as proof of their alliance with the greater dragons. - Ellie tries to stop Ephyr from flying higher out of the dragon’s nest. Ephyr is hit by a massive amount of life force. Ellie saves Ephyr who has somehow survived. Ellie senses Ephyr might have a dragon core but is keeping it a secret from Alejandro. - Artis suggests raising ML’s notoriety by helping out other parties to show off ML’s strength. If ML’s fame as a hunter increases, so too will his chance of meeting the goddesses. - While helping out a party, Artis and ML are faced with a massive L50 spider queen dungeon boss. ML throws his sword with a magic wand attached and it stabs the boss monster then explodes, wiping out the monster in one go. Artis and ML saved the party and sold the artifact reward to them at a discounted price. - Emil Otto, L45 spiritualist and a high priest of Altia the goddess of light. He approaches Artis who agrees to go undercover for the order of light, despite ML’s objections. Artis will go alone and be disguised as a woman to spy on Alejandro and the dragon’s nest. - Lady Adora Benister died 10yrs ago while fighting the greater dragons with the 4 Heroes. Adora was like an older sister to Artis. He feels it’s his duty to look into this dragon’s nest which Adora gave up her life to ensure they were all destroyed. - Alejandro has been seen as a hero in the refugee villages outside of Heitan. This is because he sends hunters like Ellie to fight the monsters that attack these villages. - People are applying for work at the dragon’s nest for the high pay and conditions. Artis applies as a L30 mage to do magic research (he’s now L45). - Hendy L50 aura user and secretly a spy from the order of light, is Alejandro’s head of security. He’s killed by Alejandro who knew Hendy and Artis were spies. - Alejandro fights Artis, trying to force him to change into a dragon. - Ephyr hides and activates the dragon’s nest with her dragon core, which shifts Alejandro’s attention away from Artis. - Ellie and Artis realise they’re both on the same side. - Artis tells Ephyr that he knows ML. - ML needs money and is assigned a small quest by Emil’s sister to find him and return the clothes he stole (the clothes were for Artis). ML finds Emil in a cave. He was captured by half-monster Rathnians with artificial guidelines. ML destroys the half-monster test subjects and rescues Emil. ML learns that Artis is in danger. - Alejandro is rebuilding the dragon’s nest so it can be used to infuse a massive amount of life force into a dragon core for a genuine artificial guideline to work. - After exploring the dragon’s nest with Ellie, Artis thinks Ephyr’s newly formed dragon core is the key that has been registered to operate the dragon’s nest. Rather than waiting for Ephyr’s dragon core to be completed, Artis and Ellie want to look for the life force fusion in the basement. Artis will absorb the life force from there. - A test subject escapes and goes on a rampage. - Ephyr wants to prove herself and confronts the test subject alone. Ephyr takes the test subject up to the top of the dragon’s nest where it explodes after getting struck by the life force. - Ephyr survives but has revealed herself to Alejandro. Artis and Ellie fight him to give time for Ephyr to flee. - Alejandro defeats them all and captures the dragon core from Ephyr. He wears an artifact that stops dragons from morphing into human form, which is why Artis can’t transform. - ML saves Artis before he’s killed by Alejandro. - Alejandro uses Ephyr’s dragon core to absorb life force and become stronger. As Alejandro fights with ML, Artis telepathically tells ML not to kill him. Alejandro is using the dragon’s nest to absorb the life force of the nearby Rathnians to heal himself. Killing Alejandro would kill the other people too. - ML holds off Alejandro while Artis, Ellie and Ephyr look underground for the life force fusion. - Ellie steals the artifact from Alejandro while they were fighting. Artis transforms into a L67 dragon to fight Hendy who has become a monstrous test subject. Ellie cuts the pipe that disrupts the connection to Alejandro so he can no longer heal himself. Hendy is killed by a huge blast of fire from Artis. - Final battle: Alejandro injects himself with an artificial guideline(?). He transforms into a L72 humanoid with an incomplete Demon God’s Blessing. He still feels immense pain when ML rips him apart with his sword. - Artis can only stabilise the life force with his dragon core. - Ellie is mortally wounded by a loyal servant of Alejandro’s who then sacrifices herself to reconnect the pipe. - Ellie uses the artifact to change Ephyr into human form. Ephyr becomes a L5 magic swordswoman. ML fights Alejandro after they’ve crashed through to the basement. Ephyr replicates Ellie’s dancing sword steps and avoids Alejandro’s attacks. Ephyr slashes through the life force fusion as ML slices through Alejandro. - Emil and reinforcements from the order of light arrive. - In the end, Ellie dies. Ephyr is imprisoned awaiting trial as she and Ellie were seen as close associates with Alejandro. - Leslie secretly procures the (almost complete) Demon God’s Blessing from the dragon’s nest. - Haunted house: the Ghost Maiden L35 is a test subject with an artificial guideline. She’s an orphan who sees Richard and Leslie as her saviours. The house was the site of many secret experiments by Great Earth and has many traps. ML, Artis and Ephyr are sent there on a ghost subjugation mission by the order of light. - A dimensional trap was set to catch them. The place will cease to exist if they don’t find the operational tool (ie the Ghost Maiden) and destroy the source. - The Ghost Maiden possesses ML and fights him inside his mind. Artis creates a magic circle around ML that he activates when the Maiden comes out of his body. They escape the dimensional trap. Artis also nullifies the Maiden as an operational tool which meant she’s lost all of her abilities and is just an ordinary human now. - The Maiden reveals a golem transport carriage to help Ephyr get to her trial on time. The carriage is powered by a fragment from the Demon God’s Blessing that ML had. - At the trial, Ephyr is exonerated thanks to testimony from the Maiden. Later with her extensive knowledge of magic tools, the Maiden becomes an appraiser. - “Thinkers” the mage guild is a top level magic research institute in Rune the Magic Kingdom. - The mage symposium: where new magic tools are revealed, and nobles socialise and show off their possessions. - Richard and Leslie go to Rune the Magic Kingdom. They secretly meet with Zenovia during the mage symposium. - NB: The goddesses blessed the heroes so their bodies would never grow old. They maintain a youthful appearance. - The legendary 4 Heroes of the continent (from 20yrs ago): - Zenovia / Zenova, Archmage and ruler of Rune the Magic Kingdom. She’s also the leader of Thinkers. - Barolt the Sword King, a Valterian warrior. The strongest of the heroes and the strongest swordsman on the continent. He hasn’t been seen in recent years. - Garhan the Terrible, the top magic swordsman and monarch of Kaldurie, the kingdom of 1000yrs. He’s the only one still on active duty. He’s killed more other worlders than anyone. - Hollian, the strongest nymph, Queen of the nymphs and Queen of Allendia the fairy / spirit kingdom. The ultimate spiritualist and the transcendentalist of life and death. - The Heroes still have a limited lifespan. - Garhan and Zenovia (and supported by Hollian) want immortality so they can continue to protect this world (as the new gods?), instead of the goddesses who act as passive spectators. - With dimensional sealing magic, Zenovia and Garhan have sealed Kivryelle the Goddess of Darkness. They must remain in the neutral space to keep the goddess trapped. Communicating with the outside world, they’re using the Inquisitors and the Dark Brotherhood to collect the remaining fragments for the Demon God’s Blessing so they can use it to transfer the goddess’ powers to themselves. So far they’ve absorbed half of Kivryelle’s powers. - ML meets Zhanglu Xin (from Shanghai) when he registers as a new L20 hunter at the Heitan Hunters Guild. Ephyr (with a new dragon core) is registered as a new L15 hunter of Artis’ party. - ML and Zhanglu are sentenced to the Crater Valley prison camp for 100yrs after accidentally hurting the Baron who is in charge of the prison. Zhanglu tells ML to hunt monsters in the dungeon for their magic stones to bribe the guards to reduce their sentences. - Zhanglu is a naive idealist who hopes other worlders and native-born will be able to coexist peacefully. He also believes in being a hero that protects and cares for the weak. - Zhanglu died in a car accident and was reborn as a Chosen One. In his past life he was a loner and a bookworm. He made good friends when he was L5 to L19 but was alone again when he reached L20 and was teleported to the Rath’na continent. He wants to become famous so his friends will hear about him and come find him. The 4 vital energies / great powers: Aura - Strong physique and destructive energy. Mana - Magical energy. Prana - Regenerative and protection energy. Force - Lightning and internal energy. - Sir Leonhart Catel Francis, Inquisitor and L120+ spiritualist. - He was a hero blessed by the goddesses. He maintains a youthful appearance and has a limited lifespan. - The Dark Brotherhood have been locating and securing dragon’s nests held by Great Earth in search of fragments of the Demon God’s Blessing. This has been directly ordered through oracles from the Goddess of Darkness, but it’s actually Garhan instructing them. - Garhan and Zenovia were the ones who created the new “fake” Great Earth group. A spell is cast on its members that if they try to reveal any info about the 4 Heroes, the taboo magic will melt their brain and they’ll die. - Garhan sends Leslie to infiltrate the prison and retrieve the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing from the other worlder. - Zhanglu starts a protest chant among the prisoners to release them while the Baron is visiting the prison. The Baron offers a deal for ML to fight the other worlder prisoner, a L61 magic swordsman (who is actually Laude). If ML wins, the Baron will reduce everyone’s sentences. Leslie volunteers to be on Laude’s side to fight against Zhanglu and ML. - At the battle arena, Laude uses his beholder arm to control the monsters and makes them swarm around ML. After the monsters are easily wiped out by ML, Laude summons a L80 dungeon boss. - ML splits the boss monster in 2. His killing instincts from his 22yrs in the Rock Mountains have taken over. - Before ML kills Laude as his 1st Rathnian, Zhanglu intervenes and his arm is severed. - NB: Other worlders become addicted to killing Rathnians from the pleasure that’s released to their brains after they do so. That’s why other worlders become murderous monsters. - Leslie was in a cell with other worlders like her and they were suffering from withdrawal symptoms after killing Rathnians. She was made a subordinate of Hollian, Garhan and Zenovia, and did their dirty work for 10yrs. She’s under a “restrain” spell / seal that keeps her murderous intent under control. - ML sees that Leslie is a spiritualist and has her heal Zhanglu as much as she can. Laude covers for them from the Baron’s guards as they escape into the tunnel created by the boss monster. ML becomes wanted for escaping prison. - Zhanglu asks ML for his help in fighting for what he believes in. ML agrees to help Zhanglu achieve his ideals. - Sir Leonhart has a merchant investigate the Crater Valley prison camp for him, and he sees photos of ML. He recognises him as the L5 hunter who evaded him in Onprous city. He arrives at Heitan and runs into Artis. He pays the Baron a visit with Artis and Ephyr. - The Baron runs away, fearful of being punished for having a fake other worlder (ie Laude). Artis, Ephyr and Leonhart follow him to the empty arena. The Baron uses the captive Laude’s beholder ability to summon another dungeon boss. Leonhart swiftly defeats the boss monster. - Zhanglu unites the prisoners that were sent after them by the Baron. Under his leadership, the prisoners want to expose the injustice and inhumane treatment in the prison, take the Baron to court for his illegal actions, and gain their freedom. - Leslie succumbs to her murderous intent as the seal has been weakened. She kills a prisoner who was against Zhanglu’s plan. - ML and Zhanglu find Leslie unconscious after possibly trying to kill herself. Nearby are the dead prisoner and a dead guard killed by Leslie. ML chases after the surviving injured guard. - Zhanglu leads the prisoners while carrying Leslie towards the boss room. They are met by guards who shoot a barrage of missiles that kills everyone. Leslie feeds the dying Zhanglu the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing. He transforms and kills all of the guards. - ML is interrupted in his chase by Leonhart. - Leonhart and ML battle it out, with devastating effects. - After a massive blow from Leonhart, ML seems to be no longer conscious and his body is fighting purely with his survival instincts and veteran hunting skills. ML’s aura is awakened at last in a huge explosive burst. He manages to injure Leonhart and the residual aura makes it slow to heal with his prana. They continue to fight this battle of epic proportions. - Artis and Ephyr arrive at the boss room. They carefully approach Zhanglu who is holding an unconscious Leslie. Artis tries to separate the fragment from Zhanglu using the other fragment she has attached to her staff. She’s interrupted by a surviving prisoner who takes the boss room artifact that would close the dungeon. It becomes a portal that teleports all of them to Heitan. - Zhanglu now carries an unconscious Artis with Leslie. He kills the hunters who surround him and attack him. He flies away with Artis and Leslie, heading towards the Eastern Valley to meet ML as promised. Ephyr frees Artis with a slash of her sword. - Zhanglu’s mutated body is trying to use Leslie’s life force to heal itself. Zhanglu regains control of his body and breaks free from the mutant shell. His severed arm is restored with properties from the fragment. Artis casts a huge fireball at the still live mutant shell, incinerating it completely. They can see the fight between ML and Leonhart from afar. Zhanglu decides to sacrifice himself to stop the fight between ML and Leonhart. - Just as ML makes the perfect combo sword attack, the power of ML’s aura in the end overwhelms his body and eventually destroys his weapon. He asks Leonhart to spare Artis, Ephyr and Zhanglu, and he’ll take full responsibility. - Before ML lets Leonhart kill him, Zhanglu interrupts. He admits to being an other worlder and that he has killed innocent people while under the Demon God’s Blessing. He’s prepared to be punished and pay for his crimes. All he asks is to stop the needless fighting and killing. - Suddenly Zhanglu’s body is pierced through with a spear. The hunters want revenge for those Zhanglu killed earlier and come running towards him, screaming for his other worlder blood. Leonhart stops the mob with what appears to be a final strike that makes Zhanglu’s body disappear. Leonhart has the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing in his hand. - With Zhanglu’s death, nothing has changed. - The Baron denies any illegal activity at the prison camp. - The Baron blamed the deaths of the prisoners and guards all on Zhanglu. He even made Laude his military commander. - ML blames himself for Zhanglu’s death and is finding it hard to see the way forward. - Leslie cancels the banned mark magic contract with the Maiden. The contract forced the Maiden to never betray Leslie or else she’d die. Leslie tells the Maiden to live freely. - As Leslie’s own contract is still active, she decides to go back to Great Earth but will fight for Zhanglu’s ideal from within. - Sir Leonhart secretly saved Zhanglu. Leonhart is suspicious of who is really behind the oracles directing the Brotherhood. - ML and co. deduced Zevonia, Garhan and Hollian are behind everything. They head for Allendia the fairy kingdom 1st to deal with Hollian. The fairy kingdom is made of an alliance between 4 races / species (Branch sylphs, Shrub nymphs, Root elves, Underground dwarves) concentrated around the world tree. Each race has their own culture and ruler. The capital city is located at the trunk of the world tree. Solondia, largest city of the elf kingdom: - ML, Ephyr (L38 magic swordswoman), Artis (L52 mage) arrive at the elf kingdom. ML breaks the sword while trying to pull it out from the ground for the Thanksgiving / Harvest festival. The sword is meant to be a symbolic gesture, with the elf king as the only one who can release the sword from its magic. - ML uses his aura to destroy the giant boulder golem that was summoned by the elves. Elf soldiers surround him and … - Prince Rondelle Atlancis, a half-elf who was about to be killed by some humans in an abandoned sanctum of the Goddess of Darkness. A bright light appeared and scared the humans away. A woman called Kivye appeared from that light. - … Kivye tells ML to surrender to the elves. ML, Ephyr and Artis had saved Rondelle who was nearby. The Crown Prince sees Rondelle and immediately hails ML and co. as Rondelle’s saviours. - ML’s guideline initially showed an error with Kivye but later it said she was a L80 warrior. She tells ML that she’s the embodiment of the Goddess of Darkness. She was created to protect Rath’na from destruction. Kivye was sent to test him as a candidate for assistance by testing his abilities. - Before Kivye can challenges ML, he meets the old elf king in a secluded space. The elf king mistakes ML for the Sword King initially, then the elf king sticks a sword into the ground. ML’s broken sword is pulled into the ground by tree roots. - ML pulls out his sword with great force and buries the elf king up to his chin in dirt. The sword is repaired with wood from the roots of the world tree (it’ll help ML control his aura). The elf king admits he was testing ML as he was curious about his abilities. - NB: Rondelle is the youngest son of the elf king. His human mother ran away and abandoned him. Elves despise half elves. - The elf king asks ML and co. to go with Rondelle to find out the cause of what’s killing the people and livestock in the eastern small root village. When they arrive after being chased by monsters, they discover the 2nd elf prince (the Crown Prince’s younger twin brother) is hiding in the village after being banished from the elf kingdom 10yrs ago. The 2nd elf prince is the only mage and doctor in the village. - Kivye has another mission from the Goddess of Darkness: to find Barolt who can defeat the other 3 corrupt heroes. - Kivye tells ML and co. that the Goddess of Darkness has been sealed away by Garhan and Zenovia. - Bloodsuckers have been sucking out the life force from living beings in the village, while also infecting them with parasitic larvae. A “mother” monster creates and controls the bloodsuckers. They are also attracted to and feed off aura. The entire village was already infected 6mths ago before Rondelle’s party arrived. - The bloodsuckers came through a rift to another dimension. After sensing bad energy, the 2nd elf prince and the villagers went underground to inspect the root of the world tree and saw the rift. - The infection doesn't seem to affect the 2nd elf prince. - The “mother” is now playing happy pretend families with Rondelle’s party. Kivye overcame the infection herself and has infiltrated the “family”. Rondelle remains uninfected. - The bloodsuckers are dungeon level monsters. - The parasites need memories to work. The infected are brainwashed with new memories that overwrite the old ones. - Rondelle breaks through a brick wall in his cell and uncovers roots of the world tree. He uses his royal power to communicate with the roots and break the connection of the “mother” monster with the parasites. Kivye uses that interruption to wake up ML by kissing him to transfer aura. It works and ML uses his aura to incinerate the monster. - The main body of the monster is underground absorbing life force from the roots of the world tree. The 2nd prince took the still infected Artis and Ephyr down there, but ran away when they attacked him. ML, Kivye and Rondelle arrive. ML fights off Artis and Ephyr while Kivye fights the multiple clones of the monster. - Kivye steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr and uses it to force Artis and Ephyr to transform into their true original selves, a dragon and a wyvern. - They all attack the main monster which has possessed the entire world tree. Rondelle has connected with the world tree which stops the monster from regenerating. - The 2nd elf prince reveals to Rondelle that he was banished because the elf king discovered his experiments with bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince had been experimenting with them on humans for the past 20yrs. Once the main monster dies, he wants Rondelle to open the rift to let more monsters in so he can control the world. - Leonhart is on an unofficial mission. He saves Laude who had been arrested as a suspect in the murder of the Baron. Leonhart is with Laude and Zhanglu in a barren icy wasteland. - Leonhart mentions the appearance of rifts about 6mths ago. Over 100 have been reported to the Dark Brotherhood. As they approach a rift, Leonhart asks Zhanglu to share what the guideline says. It’s “Unstable dimensional rift: For the abandoned homeland and the god of the gods”. - ML and co. discover the true form of the main monster. ML talks to it as the guideline says it’s a L32 Angel species. It was originally living in a barren valley hunting smaller creatures to survive. It was badly injured by a larger predator and escaped through a rift. It was found and cared for by a young boy, his vet father and mother. The boy named it Snow and it was happy to have a family. - The boy became sick from a mysterious illness infecting many of the villagers. The 2nd elf prince was invited by the parents and he helped the boy get better. He also helped heal many of the villagers which helped him to be accepted. - The boy was too weak and eventually died. His parents were overcome with grief. Snow had the ability to take on the characteristics of anything it ate. Snow ate the boy’s body and evolved. It wanted to ease their grief but the father was horrified and tried to kill it but the mother protected Snow and was struck instead. Snow lost control and the father died as well. - Some villagers came to kill Snow as it was seen digging up the boy’s grave. Snow tried to escape through the rift but discovered it was able to control the villagers. This was because the boy it ate and the villagers were infected by bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince made a deal with Snow to help it so it could live like a human. Snow gave him 2 of it’s 4 eyes so the 2nd prince could control the bloodsuckers too. - Snow sends all of the infected villagers far away from the world tree, so that the bloodsuckers will naturally die off. - Snow goes with ML and co. to look for Rondelle. - They find Rondelle under the mind control of the 2nd Prince at the undergound roots of the world tree near the rift. - Rondelle can connect with the world tree but the Crown Prince and the 2nd Prince can’t. This is because Rondelle is the true heir as the son of the Crown Prince. The 2nd Prince sent assassins that killed Rondelle’s mother and almost killed Rondelle. - A large L148 Angel suddenly appears through the rift and devours the 2nd elf prince, evolving further. As ML fights this Angel, it pulls ML through the rift to the other world. ML struggles to fight the Angel as his guideline doesn’t allow him to use aura. - The unstable dimensional rifts lead to the land of the Demon God, the same place ML trained at for so long. - The ‘Angels’ seem to be the Demon God’s experiments to create weapons for an invasion of Rath’na. All Angels have the ability to take on the traits of what it’s eaten, accelerating it's evolution. The size of an Angel indicates how much it’s eaten. - The Angels aren’t bound to a dungeon and keep trying to crossover through the rift and wreck havoc. Ephyr as a wyvern and Artis fight a swarm of smaller Angels that end up eating eachother and evolving into a larger Angel. - Ephyr and Artis lead the large evolved Angel underground and through the rift, killing the smaller Angels on the way. Their Angel and the L148 Angel fight eachother while Ephyr and Artis help an injured ML back through the rift. - Using Kivye’s divine power and some of her aura, ML manipulates his guideline and is able to fight against the L148 Angel. With support from Artis, ML lands a cross impact blow and splits the Angel’s head open, but it was just a shell. A smaller humanoid body emerges that’s evolved from the elf it consumed. This Angel copies ML and targets Artis with Ephyr and Snow. - Kivye distracts the Angel and brings ML back through the rift. Artis and Ephyr are also there, having survived thanks to Snow who absorbed the Demon God’s Blessing fragment from Artis’ staff. - The elves led by the Crown Prince arrive to help close the rift with their magic using the world tree roots. After Snow helps to hold onto the humanoid Angel from the other side, Hollian drives this highly evolved Angel back with her huge magic crossbow. (tbc Snow either perished or was also pushed back) - Hollian fully heals ML, Artis and Ephyr. Rondelle remains in a coma. The heads of the fairy alliance meet and are informed of what happened. The sylph king steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr to lure ML to the dwarf king who wants to test his new weapon. Artis interrupts ML and the dwarf king with an ice blast. Ephyr chases after the sylph king and eventually wins in magic swordsmanship against the king. - ML and co. explain to the elf king about what’s happened to the Goddess of Darkness. He shows them some letters he’s received from Barolt. They contain cryptic messages, with the most recent letter delivered by the merchant caravan that’s leaving that night. - ML and co. join the caravan as mercenary guards. - The dwarf king gives Artis a customised weapon. The sylph king gives Ephyr a secret book of magic. Rondelle wakes up and gives something to Kivye. - NB: The dimensional rifts are due to the goddesses’ weakened protection over Rath’na after the Goddess of Darkness was sealed. The rifts don't appear in the territories of Garhan and Zenovia. - Hollian expresses concern about the rifts to Garhan and Zenovia, who had given Hollian an early warning about them. She knows about their plans and supports them as her team mates and friends. They’re keeping some aspects a secret from Hollian. Richard has been tasked with killing Hollian if she learns the whole truth. - The 450yo elf king is assassinated by Richard, under the orders of Garhan and Zenovia. Publicly his death is announced as caused by chronic illness. - Leonhart is arrested by the Dark Brotherhood for conducting an unauthorised investigation, and for going against the oracle of the Goddess of Darkness. He tells the shaman that he suspects someone is pretending to be the Goddess and has stolen her divine power. - Laude and Zhanglu who were set free, attempt to break Leonhart out of the Brotherhood prison. They are surrounded by the Brotherhood but Leonhart breaks free from his restraints and protects Laude and Zhanglu. - The shaman has the Brotherhood surrender and admits it was a test to see Leonhart’s resolve. The shaman also suspects the Goddess is an imposter. The latest oracle ordered the arrests of ML, Artis, Ephyr and Kivye, with wanted posters to be put up soon. They are accused of assassinating the elf king. - Leonhart with Laude and Zhanglu go to find ML and co. - The fairy alliance don’t believe ML and co. are guilty so an investigative team is set up to find out the truth. Richard is assigned as the team leader. His task under Garhan and Zenovia is to kill ML and co. Leslie is assigned to keep an eye on Hollian. - The 4 heroes in the war 20yrs ago sent the defeated other worlders to a sky dungeon and sealed them away. As punishment, the other worlders with an average of L80 were made to hunt monsters to collect their magic stones for the heroes. - Richard has a group of these other worlders hunt ML and co. - ML and co. enter the desert and reach the forgotten ancient city of Callan. It’s situated on a huge oasis in the middle of the desert. The desert city was built on the rooftops of the ruins. A dungeon appeared 35yrs ago and is known as the Great Labyrinth. - ML’s team save Madame Celia from thieves. She owns and runs many of the businesses in the city. She gives them a map to help with exploring the labyrinth. She also gave them artifacts called chain fragments that tell you if a team mate is in danger. - In the dungeon, ML fights the monsters and leaves the final blow to Artis and Ephyr so they can absorb the life force and level up their dragon cores. With great teamwork, they destroy a large and difficult monster. They realise the map Celia gave them was to the thieves’ hideout. They bring the thief leader back to Celia and ML threatens her for tricking them. Suddenly ML is grabbed by someone and smashed through the wall and through the lower floors. It’s Barolt (L200+ alpha). - Barolt refuses to listen to ML and insists on fighting him. They’re stopped by Celia before they demolish the whole city. - Kivye explains the situation to Barolt and he refuses. - Kivye tries to kill herself as she feels unwanted but also needs to send word back to the Goddess. ML saves her. ML, Ephyr and Artis convince Kivye that she’s a much valued member of the team. - Barolt wants to take ML with him to defeat the divine beast that’s guarding the lowest floor of the labyrinth. Once the beast is defeated and the dungeon closed, Barolt agrees to go on the mission set by the Goddess of Darkness. Kivye cuts her hair and gives it to ML, hoping the divine power in her hair might help him. - The merchant caravan that ML’s team had guarded earlier is approached by the other worlders group on behalf of the fairy alliance. The other worlders kill everyone in the caravan and frame ML for their murder. - Leonhart, Laude and Zhanglu are in the desert and they come across the bodies of those from the merchant caravan. A survivor tells them it was a group from the fairy alliance before she dies. - Leonhart can tell the killers were other worlders from how the caravan people died. He recalls an incident 15yrs ago when Richard’s family were killed by the villagers after they found out he was an other worlder. Richard killed all of the villagers for revenge. - Martin the warrior and the sister spiritualists Elza and Poelle were in the party that ML saved from the spider queen before. - Martin was also the one who speared Zhanglu. - Martin is obsessed with getting stronger than the other worlders. - Barolt saves Martin from a strong monster. A horde of monsters surround them, so Barolt takes the sisters while ML carries the injured Martin down a long and winding water drain. - They arrive at Barolt’s home base that he’s created from the remains of monsters. Barolt offers to train ML and Martin for 15 days until they run out of food. - ML has an abnormal amount of aura which developed due to the extreme hardships he faced and fought against. As he only recently manifested his aura, he is bad at controlling it. It’s almost as if ML is cursed to be unable to control aura. He wants to learn how to create an aura blade like Barolt. - There’s a massive door near Barolt’s home. Behind the door is the divine beast that Barolt wants ML to defeat. The door can only be opened by slashing it with an aura blade. - After a few days, Barolt opens the door with his aura blade and pushes ML through to the other side. The door seals up behind ML. A giant arm of an Angel is trapped (by Barolt) and blocking a rift in the ground. - Barolt used the skin of the Angel to make the door. - Barolt wants to bring out ML’s true nature while surviving in a situation where ML can’t escape and is faced with death. - ML fights that arm for 5 days straight. After ML has run out of aura, he can finally sense all 4 of the vital energies around him. - ML realises the wood from the world tree acts as a sheath for his sword while it absorbs ML’s aura and creates a blade from bloodstone (red aura crystal). He unsheathes his sword and slashes the door into pieces while severing the Angel’s arm. - ML is unconscious for 2 days. Ch 120 to 125 [ Barolt’s story and how he met the other 3 Heroes ] - 70yrs ago, dungeons and monsters suddenly appeared on the Rath’na continent. Valterians were treated as simple barbarians and often hired as cheap mercenaries. As a boy, Barolt lost his family while fighting monsters during a mercenary job. 21yo Barolt leaves his tribe and travels to the Rath’na continent to grow stronger. - Barolt pushed himself to grow stronger as he endlessly fought monsters. 25yo Barolt meets Garhan, a magic swordsman from Thunderbolt, a hunter guild. Garhan hides his identity as the heir of the noble Andrews family. While Barolt and Garhan fought each other, they destroyed the monster that killed Barolt’s family. Barolt awakened his aura during their fight. - Garhan takes Barolt to his guild to collect the reward for killing the monster. Garhan convinces Barolt of his sincerity in hunting monsters to protect the weak. Barolt agrees to join Garhan’s party as his guardian knight. Garhan is disowned by his family for becoming a lowly hunter. Barolt and Garhan focus on closing dungeons and become famous. They sell their dungeon artifacts to Zenovia who researched the Demon God’s magic. She later joined their party. - They saved Hollian, a nymph slave who was being mistreated with other slaves by a nymph noble family. Hollian also joined the party and they became known as righteous hunters who helped the weak. Their strength and their followers grew. - Years pass. The party hold promotional exhibition shows to encourage the nobles to invest in more hunter guilds. - Other worlders have started to appear. - Garhan’s father dies and he decides to retire as a hunter to return to being a noble and a political figure. - Barolt challenges Garhan to a duel to determine who was the strongest. After an epic battle, Hollian and Zenovia stop them from killing each other. Garhan begs Barolt to stay by his side. Barolt doesn’t agree with Garhan giving up his sword and leaves the party. - 20yrs later, Barolt continues to search for “true strength.” - Garhan of Kaldurie declares war on Great Earth and the other worlders. Barolt finds new purpose in representing his tribe and joins Garhan in the war. - After the war ends, the 4 comrades are called Heroes by the goddesses. A massive volcanic eruption occurs on the island where the Valterian tribe is. They’re all killed, leaving Barolt as the last surviving Valterian. - Garhan secretly spread a false rumour that the other worlders are demons to justify the war (?) [ ML’s story resumes ] - ML and Barolt enter the rift to fight the Angels. - Those who can see guidelines can’t attack Angels. That’s because both other worlders and Angels are sent by the Demon God. - ML is able to kill the Angels by using aura. Barolt trains ML as they fight the Angels. - Artis, Ephyr and Kivye work at the Oasis bar under Celia as they wait for Barolt and ML to return. - Richard and the other worlder assassins arrive at Callan and target Artis, Ephyr and Kivye right away. - Leonhart arrives with Laude and Zhanglu and they help Artis, Ephyr and Kivye against their attackers. - Kivye was to be captured alive. As the goddess’ embodiment, she is an avatar that has a share of the goddess’ power. If Garhan kills Kivye with his own hands, he’ll obtain more of the goddess’ power. - Garhan needs the knowledge and info to control the goddess’ divine power that was sealed inside Kivye. - Martin is finally able to manifest his aura. - More other worlder assassins arrive at Barolt’s home. - ML receives a signal from the communication device that Celia gave him. Barolt continues to fight the Angels while ML leaves the rift to check on his friends. ML arrives at Barolt’s home just in time to save Martin and the twin sisters from being killed. - ML kills the assassins except for their healer who ML gets to help Martin and the sisters recover, then they head to Callan. - Garhan arrives in Callan and he kills Martin and one of the sisters. Garhan easily defeats ML and Leonhart. Garhan absorbs the knowledge and info from Kivye. Multiple rifts suddenly appear across the darkened skies and angels come pouring out. - Barolt appears through a rift. Garhan offers to share his divine power with Barolt who has less than 4mths to live. - Barolt creates a new divine power from his own aura. - Garhan and Barolt fight a colossal battle. Both are critically injured and weakened. As the skies clear and the rifts close, Zenovia arrives to finish off Barolt. He still manages to sever her legs. ML and co. arrive to protect Barolt. As ML fights Garhan, Zenovia opens a portal. Zenovia and Garhan escape. - Barolt is using the small aura he has left to stay alive. He asks ML to strike the last blow so Garhan and Zenovia, who have artificial guidelines from the Demon God’s blessing, don’t get the XP from his death. This is his last battle as true warriors. - Barolt found Celia as a baby among the ashes of his tribe. She is now the last surviving Valterian. - Barolt’s death is announced. The truth is yet to be revealed. - From the XP received, ML finally levels up.
I've Become the Villainous Empress of a Novel
Read ch 76 as of 28/12/21 - ** Gaps in story make it confusing and hard to follow. Some really bad translation. I’ve had enough - DROPPED - FL was a 32yo office worker who woke up after a night drinking and is reborn as Empress Julia Domina Berius of the Ranchea Empire, 3 days before she’s due to be executed by rebels led by her knight Eustos Marcus (illegitimate son of a Duke). - FL was a just ruler who changed into a hedonistic tyrant. This was due to Duke Kierr Fez who secretly drugged her. Duke Fez handled the internal affairs of the Empire as FL’s proxy while she was at war for a year and continued to do so in the year after the war ended. - To prevent her death, FL frees those imprisoned in the Tower of Exile who were falsely accused by Duke Fez. - FL reinstates the 17yo archmage Felix and Count Cyril Venus to gather evidence of corruption, embezzlement, bribery, etc by Duke Fez and the nobles he led over the last 2 yrs. - FL summons all of the nobles and has Count Venus present in detail all of the crimes Duke Fez is accused of. FL sets a trial date in a few days time to prove she is fair and just. - Eustos gives up the rebellion after seeing FL’s golden aura. He asks to pledge his loyalty to her again. - Duke Fez is freed from prison by his ally Count Arita but they are met coming out of the sewers by FL, Eustos and Felix. - FL holds a trial that day with the extra charge of treason, including leaking secret files to foreign parties and obtaining drugs that were secretly given to FL. All of those convicted were executed immediately. - FL appoints Count Venus (a foreigner) as her Chancellor. - After a month of hard work, FL is forced to take time off for the Thanksgiving festival. She goes with Eustos who takes care of some thugs, former knights of Duke Fez. - FL can’t recall an incident from 2 yrs ago involving her safety that has Eustos and Felix always worried about her. - The threat of the Eton Empire still lurks... their Emperor is on the run? Daughter of the Emperor is Gaiana who used her manipulation power to send a psychic msg to FL: “Don’t come back or remember”. She seems aware that FL went back in time. - An underlying problem identified by FL are the former nobility of countries who surrendered to the Empire. Their loyalty is questionable and corruption likely. - Highlighted as a priority by Count Venus is the ex-Nasran kingdom (now a colony of the Empire) and its corrupt nobles under Baron Schetta vs Count Envida. A petition from the commoners sent to FL was about the corrupt ex-Nasran nobility protecting their privileges and using extortion (done previously under Duke Fez). - FL goes w/ Eustos and Felix to visit the Baron to investigate. - The Baron wines and dines FL in his opulent residence, including supplying handsome men who were in debt to him. FL pretends to be her old tyrant self. She gets the men so drunk they fall asleep. - A lavish hunt is arranged by the noble sycophants. - FL tours the town and receives full reports later by Eustos and Felix on the extent of corruption in the region - Baron’s ball has all of the corrupt nobles assembled. FL exposes them all, including Count Envida. They are arrested and sentenced for their crimes. - While FL looks for a capable person to take over Count Envida’s estate, she looks more broadly at the noble feudal system and wants to reform it. Titles of honour should be awarded based on merit and not inherited. Eustos and Venus are the first nobles to give up their hereditary titles. FL awards them with titles of honour. Other nobles soon follow. - New Years Ball: a political event. Foreign dignitaries are invited. This is the 1st imperial event since unification. - Jena, former royal from Iren kingdom. Known as a Saint for her healing powers, her ability is conditional. Whenever she uses her powers, she’s forced to relive her unhappiest memories. - Brig Wade, former king of Wedene. Has a weak body. - Gaiana is being forced to be the villainess by her father. She wants to save FL … - During the ball, a large fire breaks out in the Western Palace. The archives with all documents of Duke Fez’ corruption were destroyed. Jena saw an ancient magic symbol that night. - Usdan kingdom, Count Leoncia Virez, pirates … Virez had rebelled against FL when she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. She became a pirate for the greater good and in the public interest (?) - FL takes an expedition south to take care of the pirates. Jena asked to join them. On the way they come across a group of refugees fleeing from Tern. The Viscount is weak, delusional and corrupt, made worse by his half brother the Knight Commander. FL takes control of Tern. - FL uses Tern as bait to lure Count Virez, who has the ability to disrupt magic and repel detection. Virez enters Tern under the guise of peddlers. FL and Eustos go to confront Virez but she surprises them instead. Virez tests FL by having a sword fight with her. FL wins and Virez acknowledges FL as the Empress. Later FL confers the position Duke of Usdan to Virez. - FL arrives at Nator and meets 17yo Camellia Arden, the Queen of Usdan. She has the ancient magic ability of clairvoyance.
My Sister Picked Up The Male Lead
Read ch 37 as of 13/05/21 - translation weird - Sister is Diana, ML is Grand Duke Lennox / Nox, FL is 16yo Amy. Diana found an unconscious ML in the forest. He was on the run from assassins sent by the Crown Prince and lost his memory. - ML is under a curse where he is a child by day and an adult by night. His adult self has no memories of his child self and vice versa. As a child, ML follows FL around closely and acts like a child. The adult ML is very distrustful at 1st. - While Diana is away for a few days, FL and ML go to the abandoned house to look for any magic books that could help with ML’s curse. The Origin of Spells book falls open to the same emblem as the necklace that also spills out. The emblem flashes briefly on FL’s hand as she reads the name Matari. - ML is injured by monsters on the way back home. - Mercenaries follow Diana home after they had a fight in town. ML wins in a sword fight against them but further aggravates his injuries. In distress FL prays for him to be ok and the symbol on her palm glows as ML is healed and also returns to his child self. - Diana discovers ML as an adult - Diana brings home a bound and gagged Grey, one of the Shadow Knights / Knights of Dawn loyal to ML. Despite ML’s amnesia Grey departs to tell the other knights that ML is alive. - Soldier spies for the Crown Prince saw Grey and raid the house to find FL and child ML. As FL prays desperately for help, the symbol glows and ML becomes an adult. He fights off the soldiers and they flee into the forest as a fire starts around the house. ML returns to the house to fight alongside his knights and FL comes out of hiding at the end to find Diana and ML badly injured. FL’s power is activated to make ML a child while also healing him. - Diana and FL are teleported with the knights and ML to a doctor for treatment. Once Diana is stabilised, FL uses their own teleport marble and vanish as they are fugitives. - 3yrs later and the sisters have made a new home in a southern village. Diana is finally training as a knight and FL works as a healer. ML has since partnered with Serena the mage and they’ve become renowned as heroes. - FL has a surprise client that she cures of poisoning and he reveals himself as the Crown Prince. FL tries to run away from him by attending the crowded festival nearby but he finds her easily thanks to the traces of her magic. She evades him again and runs into Grey who tries to kidnap her but she uses poisonous herbs to disable him. In the end ML is the one who finds FL. - ML teleports FL to his estate after another attempt to escape by FL. There is talk of wedding preparations and FL assumes these are for Serena and ML.
It Looks Like I’ve Fallen into the World of a Reverse Harem Game
Ch 80 as of 19/04/23 - Rate 3.5 so far ** some bad translation ** End of Season, Ch 74 - something missing after Ch 74? - FL reborn as main antagonist Princess Yeldriya (Ria) Viotte Cecilia 23yo, next in line to the throne of the Viotte Empire. - FL can see game screens of Yuriel the other main protagonist in a deadly game of survival. FL starts to suspect she has to face the system itself. - FL has 3 x concubines & 1 POW: Ettsen, last Velrod Prince. - Nadricka: slave concubine, abused by the servants. - Robia Juran: scholar concubine, chief imperial librarian. - Sir Eclot Pace: knight concubine. He was sent to war to die. The Emperor wanted to contain him as well. His sister is Marquis Calanthe Pace. - Ettsen and Yuriel are caught running away. FL lets them off lightly and allows them to remain in the palace. - The Emperor gives FL the task of leading territorial negotiations with the Bourne Kingdom. Sir Eclot will help her after he returns. - FL punishes those servants that laid a hand on Nadricka. Rather then kill them, she has them reassigned to the Emperor’s palace as her spies. - FL visits the military training grounds and decides to disband her personal knights. Sir Sieger catches her eye, former youngest 2nd-in-command of 1st division imperial knights. - FL discovers Yuriel trying to trick Daisy the maid to go to a perverted nobleman. Before FL can punish Yuriel, she peaks the interest of the Emperor and his head maid protects her. - FL learns the original Princess’ weaknesses included a drug addiction and collecting young male slaves. - Sir Eclot returns and immediately investigates the palace for a traitor. Yuriel is found guilty before FL and is banished from the palace. FL no longer sees game screens. - FL looks for the drugs in the palace. FL’s head maid Hesse brings some to her. Daisy reports the rest of the drugs were in the kitchen storage but were all removed as per FL’s request. - FL keeps an eye on Sieger from a distance as she’s concerned after learning he didn’t return to his former position and is now just a guard. - Victory banquet celebration for Eclot: held in Princess’ palace. FL encounters Ettsen, Sieger, and all 3 concubines. Nadricka is FL’s escort. Ettsen catches FL after she slips and falls from a balcony. He tells her how tormented he is by her kindness. Nadricka excuses himself so FL can approach Eclot to dance. She tells Eclot to call on her for anything. - Robia is upset FL didn’t call for him but it’s only a ruse to get her alone so he can confront her about her identity. FL admits to not being the Princess. Robia claims to love her true self. - Nadricka also knew from the start FL was not the Princess and he asks her to accept Robia for her sake and safety. - Yuriel wants Ettsen to kill FL at the risk of him losing affection for her. This is Yuriel’s condition before running away again. - FL starts the conference of territorial negotiations. - FL wants to reward Eclot for his loyalty and his feats in battle. - She releases him from being a concubine so he may receive the titles and land etc as his rewards. - Later FL reassures Eclot that she’s there for him and he hasn’t been thrown away. All Eclot wants is to stay by her side. Robia is worried how Eclot might react if he knew FL wasn’t the real princess, given how loyal Eclot is to the imperial family. - Robia keeps an eye on Yuriel to win back FL’s trust. He warns Ettsen not to do anything he’d regret and to stop Yuriel if he can. Meanwhile Nadricka tells FL that he loves her. - 2nd Prince Kairos Rothschild comes with the Bourne envoy. He’s a notorious womaniser. - Yuriel as a maid approaches Arken, Duke Dominatt’s son. The Duke was the most vocal at the conference in his opposition of rewarding Eclot. She introduces herself as ‘Yuriel Dravier Cecilia’, indicating she’s the 2nd Princess. - Yuriel arrives with Arken at FL’s bday celebration. - Yuriel claims to be of imperial blood and FL kicked her out of the palace to hide this. Arken and Yuriel also accuse FL of illegally trading in child slavery and narcotics. - A badly injured Robia arrives with Ettsen. They have evidence from a magic recording device that proves FL was framed. - FL asks for an official trial to prove her innocence. - FL goes for a walk. Sieger and Eclot stop Hesse from stabbing FL with a dagger. Hesse then kills herself. - At the trial, FL details the crimes that Yuriel has committed. Then she admits to her own crimes that she wants to atone for, specifically referring to what happened with Hesse. - FL gives up her right as heir to the throne and wants to live outside the palace walls to learn how to become a better ruler. She will be away for half a year. - Daisy insists on leaving with FL and they leave at night for an abandoned castle outside of the palace. - FL tasks Eclot with uprooting the drug cartel. - FL goes into town in disguise with her hair dyed black. - She helps out a child pickpocket after he’s stopped by 2nd Prince Kairos Rothschild. She helps the child again when he’s getting beaten up by loan shark thugs. This time Sieger arrives and puts a stop to the beating. - FL faints in Kairos’ arms when she tries to remember who she was originally. While unconscious, she dreams of meeting the Game System as a person. - Yuriel is given a new quest, to conquer 2nd Prince Kairos. - She already told Ettsen that she no longer needed him and has been looking for a new male target. - That night FL interrupts Sieger beating up the loan shark thugs and she gives them money instead, saying she’s hiring their services. Sieger confirms FL is the Princess and says she has yet to convince him that she has changed. She kisses him as payback but then he kisses her passionately in return. (Ch 60) - Robia asks Nadricka to act as bait and to sleep with Yuriel. A quest window appears near FL while she’s with Sieger and she cries as it’s a quest for Yuriel to sleep with Nadricka. - Sieger offers to help and he sneaks into the palace. He throws a rock through a window to interrupt Yuriel before she can take Nadricka to bed. FL spends the night at Sieger’s place and gets to meet the children under his care. Sieger was a street orphan so he does what he can to help other children like him. - FL is summoned by the Game System while she’s asleep. - He says he is one of many “gods” and they don’t have emotions. He’s curious about FL. - Duel between Ettsen and Sieger - Eclot promises to grant a wish to the winner. - Sieger wins and gets Nadricka to visit FL. - After Nadricka leaves, FL gets drunk and ends up kissing Sieger again. She forgets about it the next day. (Ch 70) - Sieger is assigned to Yuriel as her personal guard. - A new quest opens for Yuriel … - He shows zero interest in Yuriel. - The Game System says the Princess (ie FL) must die as a condition for that world to end… - FL (with help from Sieger and Eclot) gets rid of the loan shark thugs who were operating a gang that terrorised the citizens. The gang manufactured illegal drugs, and had an underground casino and brothel. They were also human traffickers. Eclot makes sure no evidence remains to link FL with the gang who supplied her with drugs and slaves in the past. - Yuriel’s scandals in the palace have turned the nobles against her. They call for FL to be returned to the palace.
Sincerely: i Became a Duke’s Maid